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Sandra Oh

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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).

She hosted the 28th Genie Awards in 2008. She became the first woman of Asian descent to host the Golden Globe Awards at the 76th ceremony in 2019. In March 2019, she became the first Asian-Canadian woman to host Saturday Night Live. She was the third actress of Asian descent to do so, after Lucy Liu in 2000 and Awkwafina in 2018. 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.

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Films Featuring Sandra Oh

Hard Candy

20066.8

Under the Tuscan Sun

20036.9

Sorry, Haters

20055.6

Dancing at the Blue Iguana

20015.4

Cake

20054.8

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

20105.8

Mulan II

20046.5

The Night Listener

20065.5

Rabbit Hole

20106.6

Sideways

20047.1

The Princess Diaries

20017.0

Defendor

20096.4

Rick

20035.0

The Red Violin

19987.3

Double Happiness

19946.5

Waking the Dead

20006.1

Wilby Wonderful

20045.6

Last Night

19986.6

8 Minutes to Love

8 Minutes to Love

200410.0

Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity

20026.9

Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red

20226.8

Barrier Device

20025.8

Break a Leg

20053.6

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

19957.5

Tammy

20145.3

Blindness

20086.5

Can I Get a Witness?

2025

Full Frontal

20024.6

Little Criminals

19957.3

Good Fortune

20256.9

Smurfs

20255.7

Big Fat Liar

20025.9

For Your Consideration

20065.8

The People Speak

20097.2

The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow

2015

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

20176.7

Catfight

20175.6

Ramona and Beezus

20106.6

Kind of a Blur

Kind of a Blur

2005

Guinevere

19995.7

Permanent Midnight

19985.9

Meditation Park

20176.6

Prey

19958.5

The Diary of Evelyn Lau

19944.5

3 Needles

20055.9

Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche

20046.0

This Changes Everything

20196.2

The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends

20076.1

Women Who Act

2015

Daughter of Shanghai

201910.0

Over the Moon

20207.2

Bean

19976.5

Umma

20225.3

The Tiger's Apprentice

20247.2

Quiz Lady

20236.7

Raya and the Last Dragon

20217.8

Stationery

20044.0

Turning Red

20227.3

The Same Storm

20228.0

There's Someone There

2024

Child's Play

Child's Play

Sandra Oh, Inspiration

2019

Owning Mahowny

20036.8

Twelfth Night

20257.0

Fairyheart

The Big Whoop

2025

Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March

2022

Searching for Anna May Wong

2020

The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas

202610.0

National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope

2026

Untitled Daniels Event Film

Untitled Daniels Event Film

2027

Euphoria: A Look Back

20263.2

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

20256.4