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Sandra Oh Profile |
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Birth Date: July 20, 1971
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Birth Place: Nepean, Ontario, Canada
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Birth Name: Sandra Oh
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Sandra Oh is a Golden Globe-winning Canadian actress. She is
best known for playing Dr. Cristina Yang in the ABC series
Grey's Anatomy and her roles in feature films, including
Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways. In 2005, Oh made People
magazine's list of the 50 Most Beautiful People.
Oh was born to Korean immigrant parents in the Ottawa suburb
of Nepean, Ontario, where she attended Sir Robert Borden
High School and founded the Environmental Club there. She
became a ballet dancer and later became interested in acting
while in high school, where she took drama classes, acted in
school plays, and was a member of the drama club. Oh
eventually studied drama at the National Theatre School in
Montreal, whereafter she starred in a London, Ontario stage
production of David Mamet's Oleanna. Around the same time,
she also appeared as the title character in the Canadian
television film, The Diary of Evelyn Lau, and won the role
over more than a 1,000 others who auditioned.
Oh is known in Canada for her lead performances in the
Canadian film Double Happiness, for which she won the Genie
Award for Best Actress. Her other Canadian films include
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity, and Last Night, which
she again won a Best Actress Genie for. Oh also won FIPA
d'Or Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival for her role in
The Diary of Evelyn Lau.
Oh is most familiar to American audiences from her roles in
the popular films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways. On
American television, she is renowned for her current role in
the hit ABC medical series Grey's Anatomy, for which she has
won both a 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting
Actress in a Series and a 2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series.
She had also made several guest appearances on the series
Popular (1999) playing a humanities teacher.
In theatre, Oh has also starred in the world premieres of
Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters at the La Jolla Playhouse and
Diana Son's Stop Kiss at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre in New
York.
In 2006, she will be featured in the film The Night Listener
as "Anna," alongside Robin Williams and Toni Collette.
Although Oh remains active in feature film, the critically
acclaimed Grey's Anatomy remains her primary, current
occupation.
Oh and American filmmaker Alexander Payne were in a
relationship for five years, including two years of
marriage. In March 2005, the couple's spokesperson announced
their separation. A month later, Oh filed for divorce. |
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Was a member of a National Champion Canadian Improv Team at
The Canadian Improv Games in the late nineties.
When asked who her favorite rock-star is, she answered Wayne
Coyne (lead singer of the Flaming Lips), the reason being he
looks enough like her husband, Alexander Payne, for her to
pretend her fantasy about being married to a rock-star is
true!
Attended Sir Robert Borden High School in Nepean, Ontario.
She has played a pregnant woman in three films: in Under the
Tuscan Sun with Diane Lane, in Raising Helen with Kate
Hudson, and in Cake with Heather Graham.
At the 2005 SAG awards, Sandra Oh presented the Actor for
actress in a TV comedy - Teri Hatcher won the award. A year
later at the 2006 Golden Globes, Hatcher presented the award
for best supporting actress on TV - Oh won that award and
later said it was good to see her again!
In _Under the Tuscan Sun_(2003), her girlfriend was
portrayed by Kate Walsh, who went on to costar with her in
_Grey's Anatomy_(2005). Coincidentally, Kate also played a
doctor in the film.
She has the distinction of playing two characters that
co-exist in Armistead Maupin's fictional universe. In
Further Tales of the City she portrayed a bitchy newswoman
who complicated DeDe Day's mission to protect her twins,
Anna and Edgar. In the Night Listener, Oh portrays an adult
Anna Day. |
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