Sandra Oh
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Sandra Oh

Born 20 July 1971 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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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).

Known for

Grey's Anatomy
Raya and the Last Dragon
INVINCIBLE
Turning Red
The Princess Diaries
Hard Candy
The Sandman
Bean
Mulan II
American Dad!
Sideways
Killing Eve
National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope
Can I Get a Witness?
Good Fortune
Smurfs
Twelfth Night
The Big Whoop
The Tiger's Apprentice
Quiz Lady
Umma
Turning Red
The Same Storm
Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March
Raya and the Last Dragon
Over the Moon
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
Catfight
Meditation Park
Tammy
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
Rabbit Hole
Ramona and Beezus
Defendor
Blindness
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
Hard Candy
The Night Listener
For Your Consideration
Sorry, Haters
Cake
Break a Leg
3 Needles
Mulan II
Sideways
Wilby Wonderful
8 Minutes to Love
Stationery
Under the Tuscan Sun
Rick
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
Barrier Device
Full Frontal
Big Fat Liar
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
The Princess Diaries
Waking the Dead
Guinevere
The Red Violin
Last Night
Permanent Midnight
Bean
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Prey
Double Happiness
The Diary of Evelyn Lau
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