Sandra Oh

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Sandra Oh (2016)

Sandra Miju Oh (born July 20, 1971 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian actress of Korean descent.

Life

Oh grew up in Nepean , a neighborhood in Ottawa. For the first time she was there on stage at school performances at Sir Robert Borden High School . After graduating from school, she studied performing arts .

After graduation, Oh appeared in various series and television films such as the remakes of Cagney & Lacey and Kung Fu . In 1997 she got her first movie role in Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie. In 1998 she played a minor supporting role in the Oscar- winning film drama The Red Violin by François Girard with Samuel L. Jackson . In 2001 she was on the hit miniseries film version of the second volume of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City occupies cycle and entered the television series Six Feet Under - Died becomes more and Judging Amy on. Roles in movies she had among others Big Fat Liar , The Princess Diaries and Under the Tuscan Sun .

Oh received two Genie Awards for Best Actress, in 1994 for Double Happiness and 1999 for Last Night , among several other awards . From 2005 she played the role of Cristina Yang in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy . For this she received a Golden Globe Award in 2006 and was nominated for an Emmy five times in a row from 2005 to 2009 . In 2011 she received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame . By the end of the tenth season, she left Grey's Anatomy .

Oh was married to director and producer Alexander Payne since January 1, 2003 , who cast them in his Oscar-winning film Sideways . The two separated in 2005 and divorced in late 2006.

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations (selection)

Emmy

  • 2005 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Grey's Anatomy
  • 2006 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Grey's Anatomy
  • 2007 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Grey's Anatomy
  • 2008 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Grey's Anatomy
  • 2009 : Nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Grey's Anatomy
  • 2018 : Nomination for best leading actress in a drama series for Killing Eve
  • 2019 : Nomination for best leading actress in a drama series for Killing Eve
  • 2019: Nomination for best guest actress in a comedy series for Saturday Night Life

Golden Globe Award

Screen Actors Guild Award

Critics' Choice Television Award

  • 2019 : Best Actress in a Drama Series for Killing Eve

British Academy Television Award

  • 2019: Nomination for Best Actress for Killing Eve

Web links

Commons : Sandra Oh  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Posner: Sandra Oh's doing just fine . In: The Globe and Mail . May 12, 2007. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Grey's Anatomy: Sandra Oh leaves the series after the 10th season . In: Serienjunkies.de . August 14, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ 2019 Television Leading Actress | BAFTA Awards. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Oh, Sandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oh, Sandra Miju (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Nepean , Ontario , Canada