Sandra Oh Biography / Pictures

She is known in Canada for her lead performances in the Canadian movies Double Happiness (for which she won the Genie Award for Best Actress), Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity, and Last Night (which she again won a Best Actress Genie for). Oh also won FIPA d'Or (Best Actress) at Cannes Film Festival for her role in The Diary of Evelyn Lau.

Sandra Oh is most familiar to American audiences by her supporting role as a put-upon assistant in a sports agency in the long-running HBO series Arli$$, her supporting role in the popular 2004 film Sideways, and her current role in the hit ABC medical series Grey's Anatomy, for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress (Television) in 2006.

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 Theatre in New York. She was also recently seen in The Vagina Monologues in New York. [1]

She and American filmmaker Alexander Payne were in a relationship for five years, including two years of marriage. In March 2005, the couple's spokesperson announced their separation. A month later, Oh filed for divorce.

Quotations

• "You just don't care about what people think. But it's hard to do because people tell you what they think all the time. It's sort of nuts. We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection."
• "If there's another #%$?!@ing show or movie about New York (NYC) and everyone's white, I'm gonna %#$&!@ing die." (Ray Gun Magazine)
• "On a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food."
• Roger Ebert made special reference to Sandra's performance when reviewing the Dancing at the Blue Iguana on Ebert & Roeper and the Movies the weekend of October 20-21 saying: "...also, let's mention that Sandra Oh who goes out and does a striptease in front of the boy that she loves but doesn't think will accept her...there's a little tear that comes down while she's upside down on the pole and that's a very effective piece of acting."
• (On inter-Asian acting) "Ralph Fiennes can play an English person, a German person, a Polish person, a Jewish person. He can play anything, and no one questions him. He is a handsome, Caucasian-looking-ish man. So, to American audiences, Europe looks like that. Europe does not look like that. But that is the image we have been fed for 60 years, so we accept that. But what I have big problems with is when people put those limits on me. I just think, "Give me a f***ing break. You have no idea what I am." Because when you meet someone, you never say, "I met Joe Schmoe, and he's Irish-French." But there always has to be a quantifier or qualifier when it comes to me." (Bust Magazine)
   

• 3 Needles (2005) ... as Mary
• Grey's Anatomy (TV series) (2005-present) ... as Dr. Cristina Yang
• Hard Candy (2005) ... as Judy Tokuda
• Sideways (2004) ... as Stephanie
• Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
• Full Frontal (2002)
• The Princess Diaries (2001)
• Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000)
• The Red Violin (1998)
• Bean: The Movie (1997)