Sandra Oh

Known for ActingBorn 1971-07-20 (age 55)Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Sandra Miju Oh OC (born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian and American actress. She is known for her starring roles as Rita Wu in the HBO comedy series Arliss (1996–2002), Dr. Cristina Yang in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2005–2014), and Eve Polastri in the BBC America spy thriller series Killing Eve (2018–2022). She has received one Primetime Emmy Award from fourteen nominations, two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2019, Time magazine named Oh one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Oh first gained recognition for her roles in the Canadian films Double Happiness (1994) and The Diary of Evelyn Lau (1994), where she won Genie Awards for both films. Her later television credits include Judging Amy and American Crime, as well as voice roles on American Dad!, American Dragon: Jake Long, The Proud Family, Phineas and Ferb, Chop Socky Chooks, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and Invincible. In 2021, she played the lead role in the Netflix comedy-drama series The Chair. She was also one of the executive producers of the series. She has had notable leading performances in films such as Last Night (1998), Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (2002), Wilby Wonderful (2004), Catfight (2016), Meditation Park (2017), and Quiz Lady (2023). She has also taken supporting roles in Bean (1997), The Princess Diaries (2001), Under the Tuscan Sun (2003), Sideways (2004), Hard Candy (2005), Rabbit Hole (2010), and Tammy (2014). She voiced roles in the animated films Mulan II (2004), Over the Moon (2020), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Turning Red (2022). She hosted the 28th Genie Awards in 2008. She became the first woman of Asian descent to host the Golden Globe Awards at the 76th ceremony in 2019. In March 2019, she became the first Asian-Canadian woman to host Saturday Night Live. She was the third actress of Asian descent to do so, after Lucy Liu in 2000 and Awkwafina in 2018. She was also the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and the first woman of Asian descent to win two Golden Globes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandra Oh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas

Asian Americans

Daughter of Shanghai

8 Minutes to Love

INVINCIBLE

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai

Prey

Grey's Anatomy

The Same Storm

Six Feet Under

Killing Eve

The Sandman

Raya and the Last Dragon

Phineas and Ferb

American Dragon: Jake Long

The Proud Family

Turning Red

Judging Amy

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

The Tiger's Apprentice

Over the Moon

The People Speak

The Red Violin

The Graham Norton Show

Little Criminals

Twelfth Night

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Sideways

The Sympathizer

Good Fortune

American Dad!

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red

The Princess Diaries

Quiz Lady

Under the Tuscan Sun

Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity

Denim Blues

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

Hard Candy

Arli$$

Owning Mahowny

Sesame Street

Meditation Park

Betas

Further Tales of the City

The Chair