Sandra Oh

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Sandra Oh
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Oh at a Writer's Guild of America protest, November 2007
Born Sandra Miju Oh
(1971-07-20) July 20, 1971 (age 53)
Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Occupation Actress
Years active 1989–present
Spouse(s) Alexander Payne (m. 2003–06)

Sandra Miju Oh[1] (born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian actress known for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy, a role that earned her Golden Globe and 2 Screen Actors Guild awards, as well as five nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

She has also played notable roles in the feature films The Princess Diaries, Under the Tuscan Sun, Last Night, Sideways, and had a supporting role on the HBO original series Arli$$. Other films she has appeared in include The Night Listener, Sorry, Haters, Blindness, Bean, Wilby Wonderful, Hard Candy, and Rabbit Hole. She starred in the acclaimed Canadian films Double Happiness, The Diary of Evelyn Lau, and Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity the formers of which won her the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role and the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series respectively. She currently stars in the Refinery29 Web Series Sh*tty Boyfriends.

Early life and education

Oh was born on July 20, 1971 in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, to middle-class Korean immigrant parents Oh Junsu (John) and Oh Young-nam, who had moved to Canada in the early 1960s.[2] Her father is a businessman and her mother a biochemist.[3] Oh has a brother, Ray, and a sister, Grace. She grew up in a Christian household,[4] living on Camwood Crescent in Nepean, where she began acting and ballet at an early age.[5] Growing up, Oh was one of the few youth of Asian descent in Nepean.[6][7] At the age of 10, she played The Wizard of Woe in a class musical, The Canada Goose.[8][9]

Later, at Sir Robert Borden High School, she founded the Environmental club BASE (Borden Active Students for the Environment), leading a campaign against the use of styrofoam cups. While at Sir Robert Borden High School she was Student Council President. She also played the flute and continued both her ballet training and acting studies; however, she knew that she "was not good enough to be a professional dancer"[5] and eventually focused solely on acting. This interest led her to take drama classes, act in school plays, and join the drama club where she took part in the Canadian Improv Games and Skit Row High, a comedy group. Against her parents' advice, she rejected a four-year journalism scholarship to Carleton University to study drama at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, paying her own way. She told her parents that she would try acting for a few years, and if that failed, return to school.[8] Curiously, while studying at the National Theatre School, she portrayed a waitress in the made-for-television film, School's Out, in which her co-worker, Caitlin Ryan (Stacie Mistysyn) also considers turning down her acceptance into Carleton University's journalism program.

Soon after graduating from the National Theatre School in 1993, she starred in a London, Ontario stage production of David Mamet's Oleanna. Around the same time, she won roles in biographical TV films of two significant female Chinese-Canadians: as Vancouver author Evelyn Lau in The Diary of Evelyn Lau (Oh won the role over more than 1,000 others who auditioned); and as Adrienne Clarkson in a CBC biopic of Clarkson's life.

Career

Sandra Oh at the 2007 Golden Globes

Oh became even more widely known in Canada for her lead performance in the Canadian film Double Happiness, for which she won the Genie Award for Best Actress. She then went on to star in the 1997 international feature hit film Bean playing the supporting role of Bernice, the art gallery P.R. manager. Her other Canadian films include Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity and Last Night, for which she again won a Best Actress Genie.

Oh is most familiar to American audiences from her roles in the films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways. She considers Sideways to be one of the two best movies she has made, along with Evelyn Lau.[8] In the less well-known Dancing at the Blue Iguana, she played a poetry-writing stripper, performed several nude dance routines and received the movie's best reviews. On American television, she is renowned for her former role in the hit ABC medical series Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won both a 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series and a 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. In July 2009, she received her fifth consecutive Emmy nomination for her work on the series. In August 2013, Oh announced that the program's tenth season would be her final season.[10]

Oh received critical acclaim for her six seasons as Rita Wu on the HBO series Arli$$. She received an NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Cable Ace award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her work on Arli$$. 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 Theater in New York City. She made several guest appearances on the series Popular (1999) playing a humanities teacher.

She has also guest starred in the television series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Judging Amy, Six Feet Under, and Odd Job Jack.

In 2006, she costarred in the film The Night Listener as Anna, alongside Robin Williams and Toni Collette. In her only audiobook, she played Brigid O'Shaughnessy in a Grammy-nominated dramatization of The Maltese Falcon (2008), which also featured Michael Madsen and Edward Herrmann. She also has done a few voice roles in animation, including a few guest appearances in American Dragon: Jake Long, the voice of Princess Ting-Ting in Mulan II and the voice of Doofah in The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends.

Oh at the induction ceremony for her star on Canada's Walk of Fame

Oh was host of the 28th Genie Awards on March 3, 2008.[11] In 2009, Oh performed in The People Speak a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.[12] During the off season hiatus from filming Grey's Anatomy in 2010, Sandra Oh took the part of Sarah Chen in the British crime drama Thorne. She took intensive dialect coaching in order to play her British character.[13]

On June 28, 2011 it was announced that Oh would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame; she was inducted on October 1 at Elgin Theatre in Toronto.[14]

In 2013, Oh announced that she would be leaving Grey's Anatomy.[10][15] Oh made her last appearance as Cristina Yang, exiting the series, with the season 10 finale.[16]

In October 2014, Oh announced that she would be teaming up with Canadian director Ann Marie Fleming to collaborate on an animated feature film titled Window Horses.[17]

In March 15, 2015, it was announced that Sandra Oh is part of a Short Film titled Autumn Day.[18]

Personal life

Oh and filmmaker Alexander Payne were in a relationship for five years. They married on January 1, 2003, separated in early 2005, and divorced in late 2006.[19] On July 8, 2013 Sandra Oh received the key to the City of Ottawa, Ontario, from Mayor Jim Watson.[9][20]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1989 The Journey Home Short film
1994 Double Happiness Jade Li
1995 Prey Short film
1996 Cowgirl Short film
1997 Bean Bernice Schimmel
1997 Bad Day on the Block
1998 Last Night Sandra
1998 The Red Violin Madame Ming
1998 Permanent Midnight Friend
1999 Guinevere Cindy
2000 Waking the Dead Kim
2000 Dancing at the Blue Iguana Jasmine
2000 Three Lives of Kate Narrator Short film
2001 The Princess Diaries Vice Principal Gupta
2001 The Frank Truth Herself Documentary Feature
2002 Big Fat Liar Mrs. Phyllis Caldwell
2002 Full Frontal Fourth Fired Employee
2002 Rick Michelle
2002 Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity Kin Ho Lum
2002 Barrier Device Short film
2003 Under the Tuscan Sun Patti
2003 Owning Mahowny Craps Player Uncredited
2004 Sideways Stephanie
2004 Wilby Wonderful Carol French
2004 Mulan II Ting Ting Voice
2004 8 Minutes to Love Short film
2005 Hard Candy Judy Tokuda
2005 Break a Leg Young Turk
2005 Cake Lulu
2005 3 Needles Mary the Nun
2005 Sorry, Haters Phyllis MacIntyre
2005 Kind of a Blur Joe
2006 The Night Listener Anna
2006 For Your Consideration Marketing Person
2007 The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends Doofah Voice Only
2007 Falling Short film
2008 Blindness Minister of Health
2009 Defendor Dr. Park
2009 The People Speak Herself Documentary
2009 Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey Gal 2000
2010 Ramona and Beezus Mrs. Meacham
2010 Rabbit Hole Gabby
2014 Tammy Susan
2016 Catfight Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1989 Denim Blues Gwen
1992 Degrassi High: School's Out Waitress Uncredited
1993 The Diary of Evelyn Lau Evelyn Lau
1995 If Not for You 2 episodes
1995 Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years Ming Li 1 episode
1995 Cagney & Lacey:The View Through the Glass Ceiling Officer Angela Lum
1996 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues Mai Chi 1 episode
1996–2002 Arli$$ Rita Wu
1999 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child Breadcrumb (voice)
2000 Popular Humanities Teacher 2 episodes
2001 Date Squad Alpha Baby
2001 Further Tales of the City Bambi Kanetaka
2001 Six Feet Under Porn Starlet Episode: "An Open Book"
2001 Judging Amy Detective Shelly Tran
2001–2002 The Proud Family Marsha Mitsubishi 5 episodes
2005–2013 American Dad! Katie/Hiko Yoshida 5 episodes
2005–2014 Grey's Anatomy Dr. Cristina Yang Main Cast (Season 1–10): 220 episodes
2006 Odd Job Jack Vanessa 2 episodes
2006–2007 American Dragon: Jake Long Sun Park
2008 Phineas & Ferb Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Girlfriend 2 episodes
2009 Robot Chicken Kate Winslet/Sarah Connor (voices)
2010 Thorne DS Sarah Chen
2011 Sesame Street Fairy Cookie Person
2014 Betas Sharron Episode: "Steppin' Out"

Awards and nominations

Year Nominated work Award Category Result
1994 Double Happiness Genie Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Won
1998 Last Night Genie Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Won
2004 Sideways Boston Society of Film Critics Best Cast Won
2004 Sideways Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Cast Won
2004 Sideways Phoenix Film Critics Society Best Cast Won
2004 Sideways Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Won
2005 Grey's Anatomy Golden Globe Awards Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Won
2005 Grey's Anatomy Screen Actors Guild Awards Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Won
2005 Grey's Anatomy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series Nominated
2005 Grey's Anatomy Satellite Awards Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated
2006 Grey's Anatomy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series Nominated
2006 Grey's Anatomy Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated
2007 Grey's Anatomy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series Nominated
2007 Grey's Anatomy Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Won
2008 Grey's Anatomy Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated
2008 Grey's Anatomy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series Nominated
2009 Grey's Anatomy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series Nominated
2015 Grey's Anatomy People's Choice Awards People's Choice Awards for Favorite TV Character We Miss Most Won

References

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