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History, Aniboom draw up contest

Hollywood Reporter - Found Jul. 1, 2009
The People Speak.' Animators will attempt to bring to life readings by such actors as Matt Damon, Sandra Oh, Josh Brolin and Morgan Freeman...
HISTORY(TM) and Aniboom Collaborate To Create Short Form Animations ... - Reuters
HISTORY(TM) and Aniboom Collaborate To Create Short Form Animations ... - Houston Chronicle
History, Aniboom draw up animation contest - Reuters
HISTORY(TM) and Aniboom Collaborate To Create Short Form Animations ... - Forbes.com
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Posted on July 1, 2009, 10:20 am

PICKING EMMY CONTENDERS: Bianco makes the case for shows, stars that ...

USA Today - Found Jun. 24, 2009
That does mean skipping Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Rutina Wesley (True Blood), Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost).

Posted on June 24, 2009, 8:46 am

Animators Bring Actor Readings to Life

BackStage.com - Found Jul. 2, 2009
The People Speak." Animators will attempt to bring to life readings by such actors as Matt Damon, Sandra Oh, Josh Brolin and Morgan Freeman...

Posted on July 2, 2009, 6:41 am

Animators Bring Actor Readings to Life

BackStage.com - Found Jul. 2, 2009
The People Speak." Animators will attempt to bring to life readings by such actors as Matt Damon, Sandra Oh, Josh Brolin and Morgan Freeman...

Posted on July 2, 2009, 6:40 am

Repeats sweet for 'Desperate,' 'Lost'

Hampton Roads Daily Press - Found Jun. 28, 2009
TV.) Sandra Oh won best supporting actress in a TV series, miniseries or TV move for her super-ambitious intern on ABC's 'Grey's Anatomy.' Oh...

Posted on June 28, 2009, 2:47 am

3 Great Wine Movies, For Your Consideration

Examiner.com - Found Jun. 26, 2009
... the way, they meet a soulful waitress named Maya (Virginia Madsen), a vivacious wine pourer, Stephanie (Sandra Oh), and the four spend some...
The perfect wines for grilling season - Hartford Courant
Taste a bit of tip top tapas - East London Advertiser
Christie?s Holds First Hamptons Wine Auction - Robb Report
More budget wine - Dallas Morning News
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East London Advertiser

Posted on June 26, 2009, 8:19 am

TV highlights, Thursday June 25

The Age - Found Jun. 24, 2009
Email Normal font Large font Cristina (Sandra Oh) attends to doctor-turned-patient Izzie (Katherine Heigl) in the dramedy that is Grey's Anatomy.

Posted on June 24, 2009, 10:41 am

Test Pattern: George on ?Grey?s? was already gone

MSNBC - Found Jun. 18, 2009
If George's character had been as integral a part of the show as, say, Sandra Oh's Cristina, there's no way his role would have been cut back...
Katherine Heigl back at 'Grey's Anatomy' - Hollywood Reporter
It's Official: T.R. Knight Leaves Grey's Anatomy - People
By George, the old O'Malley will be missed - MSNBC
It's official: T.R. Knight exits 'Grey's Anatomy' - Entertainment Weekly Online
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Posted on June 18, 2009, 8:37 am

Kitsch and Collins Join John Carter of Mars; Church to Follow?

Rotten Tomatoes - Found Jun. 15, 2009
Posted by: Jacob on June 13, 2009 at 13:22:20 well to sandra oh he was kind of an antagonist in sideways ;) also to that nude man XD Posted by...
Taylor Kitsch to play 'John Carter Of Mars' - Digital Spy
Thomas Haden Church Joining John Carter Of Mars? - Cinema Blend
Wait a minute? Gambit is John Carter? And Wolverine's girlfriend is ... - Ain't It Cool News
Thomas Haden Church to Come Aboard John Carter of Mars? - MovieWeb
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Posted on June 15, 2009, 10:45 am

Haden Church Also Joining John Carter of Mars?

Coming Soon! - Found Jun. 14, 2009
Posted by: Jacob on June 13, 2009 at 13:22:20 well to sandra oh he was kind of an antagonist in sideways ;) also to that nude man XD Posted by...
'Wolverine's' Taylor Kitsch is 'John Carter of Mars' - Zap2it.com
Kitsch Set, Collins Confirmed for John Carter of Mars! - Coming Soon!
Is Lynn Collins Going to Mars with John Carter? - Coming Soon!
Collins, Kitsch Join Cast Of Mars' Film - Post Chronicle
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Posted on June 14, 2009, 3:08 am

Sandra Oh Biography

Sandra Oh
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Sandra Oh

Oh at a Writer's Guild of America protest, November 2007
Born July 20, 1971 (1971-07-20) (age 37)
Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Years active 1989 - present
Spouse(s) Alexander Payne (2003-2006; divorce)

Sandra Oh (born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian Genie Award and Golden Globe Award winning actress. She is primarily known to American audiences for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy. She also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the HBO original series Arli$$.

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Early life

Oh was born in Nepean, Ontario, to middle-class Korean immigrant parents Joon-Soo (John) and Young-Nam, who had come to Canada in the early 1960s. Her father is a businessman and her mother a biochemist.1 Oh grew up living on Camwood Crescent in the Ottawa2 suburb of Nepean, where she began acting and dancing ballet at an early age.3 At the age of 10, she played The Wizard of Woe in a class musical, The Canada Goose.

Later, at Sir Robert Borden High School, she founded the Environmental club BASE (Borden Active Students for the Environment), leading a campaign against the use of styrofoam cups. While at Sir Robert Borden High School she was Student Council President. While in high school, she played the flute and continued both her ballet training and acting studies; however, she knew that she "was not good enough to be a professional dancer"3 and eventually focused solely on acting. This interest led her to take drama classes, act in school plays, and join the drama club where she took part in the Canadian Improv Games and Skit Row High, a comedy group. Against her parents' advice, she rejected a four-year journalism scholarship to Carleton University to study drama at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, paying her own way. She told her parents that she would try acting for a few years, and if that failed, return to school.4 Ironically, while studying at the National Theatre School, she portrayed a waitress in the made-for-television film, School's Out, in which her co-worker, Caitlin Ryan (Stacie Mistysyn) also considers turning down her acceptance into Carleton University's journalism programme.

Soon after graduating from the National Theatre School in 1993, she starred in a London, Ontario stage production of David Mamet's Oleanna. Around the same time, she won roles in biographical TV films of two significant female Chinese-Canadians: as Vancouver author Evelyn Lau in The Diary of Evelyn Lau (Oh won the role over more than 1,000 others who auditioned); and as Adrienne Clarkson in a CBC biopic of Clarkson's life.

Career

Oh became even more widely known in Canada for her lead performance in the Canadian film Double Happiness, for which she won the Genie Award for Best Actress. She then went on to star in the 1997 international feature hit film Bean playing the supporting role of Bernice, the art gallery P.R. manager. Her other Canadian films include Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity and Last Night, for which she again won a Best Actress Genie.

Sandra Oh at the 2007 Golden Globes

Oh is most familiar to American audiences from her roles in the films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways. She considers Sideways to be one of the two best movies she has made, along with Evelyn Lau.4 In the less well-known Dancing at the Blue Iguana, she played a poetry-writing stripper, performed several nude dance routines and received the movie's best reviews. On American television, she is renowned for her current role in the hit ABC medical series Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won both a 2006 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 2008, she received her fourth consecutive Emmy nomination for her work on the series.

Oh received critical acclaim for her six seasons as Rita Wu on the HBO series Arli$$. She received an NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Cable Ace award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her work on Arli$$. 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 City. She made several guest appearances on the series Popular (1999) playing a humanities teacher. She has also guest starred in the television series Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Judging Amy, American Dragon: Jake Long, Six Feet Under, and Odd Job Jack.

In 2006, she costarred in the film The Night Listener as "Anna," alongside Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Although Oh remains active in feature films, the critically acclaimed Grey's Anatomy remains her primary current occupation.

Oh was host of the 28th Genie Awards on March 3, 2008.5

Personal life

Oh and Sideways filmmaker Alexander Payne were in a relationship for five years, including two years of marriage; they married on January 1, 2003. Payne and Oh separated in early 2005 and divorced in late 2006.6

Oh has one brother, Ray, who works as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and a sister, Grace, who works as a Crown attorney in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Filmography

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Short subjects

  • The Journey Home (1989)
  • Prey (1995)
  • Cowgirl (1996)
  • Three Lives of Kate (2000) (narrator)
  • Barrier Device (2002)
  • 8 Minutes to Love (2004)
  • Falling (2007)

Television

References

  1. ^ "Sandra Oh Biography". Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/film/44/Sandra-Oh.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. 
  2. ^ "The Winding Career of Sandra Oh". NPR. 23 November 2004. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4183846. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. 
  3. ^ a b "Sandra Oh on the Challenge of Being Korean in Hollywood". The Chosun Ilbo. 13 April 2007. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200704/200704130012.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. 
  4. ^ a b Posner, Michael (12 May 2007). "Sandra Oh's Doing Just Fine: Profile". Toronto Globe and Mail: pp. R6-R7. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070512.wxoh12/BNStory/Entertainment. Retrieved on 2007-05-30. 
  5. ^ "Awards Ceremony Host biography". http://www.genieawards.ca/Genie28/host.cfm. 
  6. ^ Lee, Ken; Stephen M. Silverman (27 December 2006). "Sandra Oh's Marriage Is Officially Over". People Magazine. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20005420,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-31. 

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Sheila McCarthy
for The Lotus Eaters
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
1995
for Double Happiness
Succeeded by
Helena Carter
for Margaret's Museum
Preceded by
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Cable ACE Award for Best Actress - Comedy Series
1997
for Arli$$
Succeeded by
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Preceded by
Jennifer Garner
for Alias
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress - Drama Series
2005
for Grey's Anatomy
Succeeded by
Chandra Wilson
for Grey's Anatomy
Preceded by
Anjelica Huston
for Iron Jawed Angels
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
2006
for Grey's Anatomy
Succeeded by
Emily Blunt
for Gideon's Daughter