( m. 2003; div. 2006) Sandra Miju Oh (born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as on the medical drama series, set in the United States, which she played from 2005 to 2014. For her role, she earned a, two, and five nominations for the. She also had a supporting role on the drama series. In 2018, Oh began starring as in 's murder-mystery series; for her performance, she became the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for the. Oh has played notable roles in the American feature films (1997), (1998), (2001), (2003), (2004), (2004), (2005), (2005), (2006), (2008), (2010), and (2016).
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She has also starred in the films (1994), (1994), and (2002). She won the and the for the first two films, respectively. Contents.
Early life Oh was born on July 20, 1971, in the suburb of, to middle-class Korean immigrant parents Oh Junsu (John) and Jeon Young-nam, who had moved to Canada in the early 1960s. Her father is a businessman and her mother a. She has a brother, Ray, and a sister, Grace, and grew up in a household, living on Camwood Crescent in Nepean, where she began acting and at the early age of four to correct her 'pigeon-toed stance'. Growing up, Oh was one of the few youths of in Nepean.
At the age of 10, she played The Wizard of Woe in a class musical, The Canada Goose. Later, at, she founded the environmental club BASE (Borden Active Students for the Environment), leading a campaign against the use of cups.
While in high school, she was elected as student council president. She also played the and continued both her training and acting studies, though she knew that she 'was not good enough to be a professional dancer' and eventually focused on acting. She took drama classes, acted in school plays, and joined the drama club, where she took part in the and Skit Row High, a comedy group.
Against her parents' advice, she rejected a four-year scholarship to to study drama at the in, paying her own way. Oh told her parents that she would try acting for a few years, and if that failed, return to university. Reflecting on forgoing university, Oh said, 'I'm the only person in my family who doesn't have a in something.' Soon after graduating from the National Theatre School in 1993, she starred in a stage production of 's.
Around the same time, she won roles in biographical TV films of two significant female Chinese-Canadians: as Vancouver author in (Oh won the role over more than 1,000 others who auditioned); and as in a of Clarkson's life. Career 1994–2004: Early work Oh came to prominence in Canada for her lead performance in the Canadian film (1994), playing Jade Li, a twenty-something Chinese-Canadian woman negotiating her wishes and those of her parents.
The film received critical acclaim, with praising Oh's 'warm performance.' Of The New York Times also praised her performance, saying: 'Ms. Oh's performance makes Jade a smart, spiky heroine you won't soon forget.' Oh won the for for the role.
In 1997 she appeared in the film, playing the supporting role of Bernice, the art gallery PR manager. Her other Canadian films include and (1998), for which she again won a Best Actress Genie. She was cast in the drama (2000), playing a stripper at an adult dance club opposite. The film received middling reviews, though Oh was praised for her performance. The New York Times review said, 'Oh makes the most of her opportunity to explore the vulnerability below her characters' hard-edged surface.' The same year, she appeared in the drama.
In 2002, Oh appeared in the family comedy, followed by a minor role in 's (2002). Oh received critical acclaim for her six seasons as Rita Wu, the assistant to the president of a major sports agency, on the series, receiving an for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Cable Ace award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her work. She also made several guest appearances on the series (1999) playing a humanities teacher and guest starred in the,. Oh at the, 2011 In theatre, Oh has also starred in the world premieres of 's Dogeaters at the and Diana Son's at 's in New York City. In 2003, she was cast in a supporting role opposite in, followed by a supporting role in 's drama (2004).
She considers Sideways and The Diary of Evelyn Lau to be one of the two best movies she has made. 2005–14: Grey's Anatomy In 2005, Oh appeared in several films, including 's controversial thriller; and the independent anthology drama (2005), opposite and, in which she plays a Catholic nun in an -stricken African village. The same year, Oh was cast as in the first season of what became the hit medical series. Oh's long-running role on the show earned her both a 2005 for and a 2006 Award for. In July 2009, she received her fifth consecutive nomination for her work on the series.
In August 2013, Oh announced that the program's tenth season would be her final season. Oh at the presentation of her star on in 2011 In addition to her work on Grey's Anatomy, Oh continued to appear in films. She costarred in the thriller (2006), alongside and; in the superhero comedy (2009); (2010); and in the critically acclaimed drama (2010), opposite. In her only, she played Brigid O'Shaughnessy in a Grammy-nominated dramatization of (2008), which also featured. She also has done a few voice roles in animation, including a few guest appearances in, the voice of Princess Ting-Ting in, and the voice of Doofah in. Oh was host of the on March 3, 2008. In 2009, Oh performed in, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian 's.
During the off-season hiatus from filming Grey's Anatomy in 2010, Oh took the part of Sarah Chen in the British crime drama. She took intensive dialect coaching in order to play her British character. On June 28, 2011, it was announced that Oh would receive a star on; she was inducted on October 1 at in Toronto. In 2013, Oh formally announced that she would be leaving Grey's Anatomy at the end of the tenth season.
Oh exited the series with the season 10 finale. 2014–present: Further projects In October 2014, Oh announced that she would be teaming up with Canadian director to collaborate on an animated feature film titled. She also appeared in a supporting role in the comedy film (2014), playing the wife of. In 2015, she starred on the Refinery29 comedy Shitty Boyfriends. Oh began filming the comedy film, (2016), in New York City in December 2015. Beginning in April 2018, Oh began a in 's spy thriller series, portraying agent whose quarry is psychopathic assassin played by, with the women developing a mutual fascination. When she initially read the series script, Oh didn't realize she was being considered for a lead, saying she had been 'brainwashed' by years of being cast as the leads' best friends.
The widely praised series (having received a 100% rating on as of May 2018) had already been renewed for a second season before its premiere. Jenna Scherer described Oh in as 'a compulsively watchable actor – expressive and complex, blending wry wit and deep pathos'.
When declared Oh the best actress currently on television, critic wrote that 'It's a tour de force performance, yet so self-effacing and invisible in its effects that you come away thinking that you've seen a crackling yarn with compelling characters rather than a cultural landmark. This is a magic trick of a high order.' In 2018 Oh became the first Asian actress nominated for the Best Actress in a Drama Emmy, for that role. Personal life Oh was in a relationship with filmmaker for five years.
They married on January 1, 2003, separated in early 2005, and divorced in late 2006. On July 8, 2013, Oh received the of, from Mayor Jim Watson. Oh practices, a Buddhist form of meditation. Oh's work in acting is informed by a loose creative collective that teaches 'creative dream work', which fuses with, and aims to bring one's 'subconscious work into consciousness'.
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In the first series of this medical drama, a group of surgical interns, including Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), Cristina Yang (Sandra Oh), Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl), George O'Malley (T. Knight) and Alex Karev (Justin Chambers), begin working at Seattle Grace Hospital. On the night prior to her first day, Meredith goes to a local bar and sleeps with a man she never expects to see again. The man turns out to be neurosurgeon Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), one of her new bosses.
Izzie accuses Meredith of sleeping with her boss to get ahead, and as the series progresses, a complicated romance develops between Meredith and Derek.