Sandra Oh

SANDRA OH is a Golden Globe® and Screen Actor's Guild Award® winner and has been nominated twice for Emmy Awards for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on the hit ABC series Grey's Anatomy. Oh starred in the acclaimed and successful Fox Searchlight feature film Sideways, for which she won a Screen Actor's Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Oh started ballet lessons at the age of four and appeared in her first play, The Canada Goose, at the age of 10. She started working professionally at age 16 in television, theatre and commercials. After three years at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada, Oh beat out more than a thousand other hopefuls to land the coveted title role in the CBC telefilm The Diary of Evelyn Lau, based on the true story of a tortured poet who ran away from home and ended up a drug addict and prostitute on the streets of Vancouver. Oh's performance brought her a Gemini nomination for Best Actress and the 1994 Cannes FIPA d'Or for Best Actress.

Oh completed a sold-out run of the World Premiere of Satellites at New York's Public Theater for playwright Diana Son. She won her first Genie Award for her leading role in Double Happiness, a bittersweet coming-of-age story about a young Chinese-Canadian woman - a performance that brought her much acclaim and secured her place as one of Canada's rising young film stars. She moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to begin the first of six seasons as Rita Wu, the smart and sassy assistant on the HBO comedy series Arliss, for which she won the Cable Ace award for Best Actress in a Comedy.

Oh's additional feature film credits include Defendor, Blindness, The Night Listener, For Your Consideration, Three Needles, Long Life Happiness and Prosperity, Under the Tuscan Sun, Sorry Haters, Rick, Bean, Guinevere, The Red Violin, Waking the Dead, The Princess Diaries and Pay or Play. She starred in Michael Radford's improvised Dancing at the Blue Iguana, a bleak and raw view of life in a strip club in L.A. Oh's performance in Last Night, a Canadian film about the end of the world, led to her winning a second Genie Award for Best Actress in 1999.

Oh's additional television credits include HBO's Six Feet Under and Showtime's Further Tales of the City. Never straying far from her theatre roots, Oh 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, a role for which she received a Theatre World award. She also performed the Vagina Monologues in New York.

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