Sandra Miju Oh (born July 20, 1971 in Nepean, Ontario) is a Canadian-American actor of Korean descent.
She started out performing at a young age, but as a dancer. An environmental activist and class president in high school, she also took acting classes and performed in improv festivals. She turned down a scholarship to study Journalism at university, instead attending the National Theatre School of Canada and making a deal with her parents that if acting didn't work out she'd go back to school; everyone else in her family has postgraduate degrees. Acting worked out.
Best known for her role as Cristina Yang in Grey's Anatomy, she is also remembered for one of her earliest but greatest roles, as Evelyn Lau in The Diary Of Evelyn Lau and as Jade Li in Double Happiness for which she won a Genie (Canadian Oscar) for Best Actress — she would win the award again four years later for Last Night.
In 2018 she became the first person of Asian descent to be nominated as Best Lead at the Emmy Awards, for her role in Killing Eve, and she took her mom to the ceremony, who wore a traditional Korean hanbok for the first time on American TV.
Filmography with pages on this wiki
- Degrassi: School's Out!
- Lonesome Dove
- Cagney & Lacey
- Arli$$
- Bean
- Last Night
- The Red Violin
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
- Popular
- Tales of the City
- Six Feet Under
- Judging Amy
- The Proud Family
- The Princess Diaries
- Big Fat Liar
- Under the Tuscan Sun
- Sideways
- Mulan II
- American Dad!
- Hard Candy
- Grey's Anatomy
- American Dragon: Jake Long
- For Your Consideration
- The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
- Phineas and Ferb
- Blindness
- Defendor
- Robot Chicken
- Ramona and Beezus
- Sesame Street
- Tammy
- Peg + Cat
- Catfight
- American Crime
- Killing Eve
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
- Raya and the Last Dragon
- Invincible (2021)
- The Chair (2021)
- Turning Red
- Umma
- Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
- Quiz Lady
