Sandra Oh Bio | Wiki
Sandra Oh is a Canadian–American actress. She became known for her starring role as Rita Wu on the HBO comedy Arliss from 1996 to 2002. Sandra also played Dr. Cristina Yang on the ABC medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy and Eve Polastri in the spy thriller series Killing Eve.
She has received numerous accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and thirteen Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2019, Time magazine named Sandra one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Sandra Oh Age
Sandra was born on July 20, 1971, in Nepean, Ottawa, Canada. She is 51 years old.
Sandra Oh Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx. 1.65 m).
Sandra Oh Family
She was born in Nepean, Ontario, to her parents Oh Young-Nam and Oh Jun-su. Sandra’s mother is a biochemist and her father is a businessman. Both her parents are middle-class South Korean immigrants. They had moved to the area in the early 1960s. She has a brother, Ray, and a sister, Grace, and grew up in a Christian household.
Sandra lived on Camwood Crescent in Nepean, where she began acting and practicing ballet at age four to correct her pigeon-toed stance. Growing up, she was one of the few youths of Asian descent in Nepean. In addition to her Canadian citizenship, she has been a naturalized American citizen since 2018.
Sandra Oh Husband
Sandra was in a relationship with filmmaker Alexander Payne for five years. They married in January 2003, separated in early 2005, and divorced in late 2006. She became a US citizen in 2018. On the first anniversary of her citizenship, Sandra discussed it while hosting Saturday Night Live and referred to herself as an “Asian-Canadian-American”.
Sandra Oh Education
At Sir Robert Borden High School, Sandra founded the environmental club BASE (Borden Active Students for the Environment), leading a campaign against the use of styrofoam cups. She took drama classes, acted in school plays, and joined the drama club, where she took part in the Canadian Improv Games and Skit Row High, a comedy group.
Against her parents’ advice, Sandra rejected a four-year journalism scholarship to Carleton University to study drama at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, paying her own way. Soon after graduating from the National Theatre School in 1993, she starred in a stage production of David Mamet’s Oleanna in London, Ontario.
Sandra Oh Movies And Tv Shows
2019 76th Golden Globe Awards
2019 Saturday Night Live
2021 The Chair
2021–present Invincible
2022 The Sandman
2023 Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
2014 Tammy
2015 Snowtime!
2016 Window Horses
2016 Catfight
2017 Meditation Park Ava
2020 Over the Moon
2021 Raya and the Last Dragon
Sandra Oh Turning Red
In 2022, Sandra voiced the role of Ming Lee, the strict and overprotective mother of the main character in the Pixar animated film Turning Red. She joined Lynne Ramsay’s adaption of Margaret Atwood’s short story collection Stone Mattress.
Sandra Oh Grey’s Anatomy
In 2005, She was cast as Cristina Yang in the first season of what became the hit ABC medical series Grey’s Anatomy. Her long-running role on the show earned her 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 Primetime Emmy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Drama for her work on the series. In August 2013, Sandra announced that the show’s tenth season would be her final season.
Sandra Oh The Chair
In 2021, she served as executive producer and had the lead role in the Netflix comedy-drama series The Chair, an American comedy-drama streaming television series. The series was released on Netflix on August 20, 2021. It is set at the fictional Pembroke University, “in what seems like New England”. Professor Ji-Yoon Kim is the newly appointed chair of the English department at Pembroke University.
Sandra Oh Emmy | Awards
She has received numerous accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and thirteen Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She won two Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Last Night and Double Happiness. Moreover, she won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for The Diary of Evelyn Lau.
Sandra hosted the 28th Genie Awards in 2008 and became the first woman of Asian descent to host the Golden Globe Awards at the 76th ceremony in 2019. 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.
Sandra Oh Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Sandra’s estimated net worth is $25 million.
Is Sandra Oh Korean
Yes. She was born in Nepean, Ontario, Canada, to middle-class South Korean immigrants parents. In addition to her Canadian citizenship, She has been a naturalized American citizen since 2018. She referred to herself as an “Asian-Canadian-American” on the first anniversary of her citizenship.
Is Sandra Oh Married
No. She was in a relationship with filmmaker Alexander Payne for five years. They married in January 2003, separated in early 2005, and divorced in late 2006.