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Sandra Oh
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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 bot…
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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.
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Sandra Oh's Filmography
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No Poster
Untitled Daniels Event Film
National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope
as Alice
Euphoria: A Look Back
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas
as Self
The Big Whoop
as Wendy
Twelfth Night
as Olivia
Good Fortune
as Martha
Can I Get a Witness?
as Ellie
Smurfs
as Moxie Smurf (voice)
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
There's Someone There
as Self (archival footage)
The Tiger's Apprentice
as Mistral (voice)
Quiz Lady
as Jenny Yum
The Same Storm
as Grace Park
Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March
as Narrator(voice)
Umma
as Amanda
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
as Self (archive footage)
Turning Red
as Ming (voice)
Raya and the Last Dragon
as Virana (voice)
Searching for Anna May Wong
as Self
Over the Moon
as Mrs. Zhong (voice)
This Changes Everything
as Self
Daughter of Shanghai
as Self
Sandra Oh, Inspiration
as Self
Meditation Park
as Ava
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
as Rosie Ming (voice)
Catfight
as Veronica
No Poster
The Scarecrow
as Evelyn
Women Who Act
as Self
Tammy
as Susanne
Rabbit Hole
as Gabby
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
as Gal 2000 (voice)
Ramona and Beezus
as Mrs. Meacham
The People Speak
as Self
Defendor
as Dr. Park
Blindness
as Minister of Health
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
as Doofah (voice)
For Your Consideration
as Marketing Person
Hard Candy
as Judy Tokuda
The Night Listener
as Anna
No Poster
Kind of a Blur
as Joe
Sorry, Haters
as Phyllis
3 Needles
as Mary the Nun
Cake
as Lulu
Break a Leg
as Young Turk
Mulan II
as Ting Ting (voice)
Sideways
as Stephanie
8 Minutes to Love
as Joy
Wilby Wonderful
as Carol French
Stationery
as Voice
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
as Jade Li / Sandra (archive footage)
Under the Tuscan Sun
as Patti
Rick
as Michelle
Owning Mahowny
as Craps Player (uncredited)
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
as Kim Ho Lum
Full Frontal
as Fourth Fired Employee
Barrier Device
as Audrey
Big Fat Liar
as Mrs. Caldwell
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
as Jasmine
The Princess Diaries
as Vice Principal Gupta
Waking the Dead
as Kim
Guinevere
as Cindy
The Red Violin
as Madame Ming (Montréal)
Last Night
as Sandra
Permanent Midnight
as Friend
Bean
as Bernice Schimmel
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
as Officer Angela Lum
Prey
as Il Bae
Little Criminals
as uncredited
Double Happiness
as Jade Li
The Diary of Evelyn Lau
as Evelyn Lau
Fairyheart
as Iris (voice)
No Poster
Child's Play
as Marlene Lee