Sandra Oh
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sandra Oh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
112 acting credits
Acting · 112
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Daily Show
1996
American Dad!
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
INVINCIBLE
2021
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Judging Amy
1999
Great Performances
1971
Six Feet Under
2001
Killing Eve
2018
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Sandman
2022
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Arli$$
1996
The Oscars
1953
Turning Red
2022
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
2018
American Dragon: Jake Long
2005
The Proud Family
2001
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Popular
1999
Raya and the Last Dragon
2021
Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
2023
The Princess Diaries
2001
Smurfs
2025
Bean
1997
Good Fortune
2025
Mulan II
2004
The Sympathizer
2024
Dear...
2020
The Chair
2021
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
Sideways
2004
Thorne
2010
The Tiger's Apprentice
2024
Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995
Blindness
2008
Hard Candy
2005
Further Tales of the City
2001
Big Fat Liar
2002
Tammy
2014
The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
2007
If Not for You
1995
Ramona and Beezus
2010
Over the Moon
2020
Quiz Lady
2023
The Red Violin
1998
Waking the Dead
2000
Umma
2022
Rabbit Hole
2010
Defendor
2009
For Your Consideration
2006
Catfight
2017
The Night Listener
2006
Asian Americans
2020
Dancing at the Blue Iguana
2001
Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche
2004
This Changes Everything
2019
Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays
2011
Owning Mahowny
2003
The A List: 15 Stories from Asian and Pacific Diasporas
2026
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010
Full Frontal
2002
Cake
2005
Last Night
1998
Permanent Midnight
1998
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
1995
Rick
2003
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
2017
The Same Storm
2022
3 Needles
2005
Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
2022
Double Happiness
1994
The Big Whoop
2025
Guinevere
1999
Break a Leg
2005
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity
2002
Can I Get a Witness?
2025
The People Speak
2009
Wilby Wonderful
2004
She Walks with Apes
2020
Meditation Park
2017
Little Criminals
1995
Sorry, Haters
2005
Twelfth Night
2025
The Scarecrow
2015
Denim Blues
1989
The Diary of Evelyn Lau
1994
Daughter of Shanghai
2019
Child's Play
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Barrier Device
2002
Prey
1995
National Theatre Live: The Misanthrope
2026
Fairyheart
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Women Who Act
2015
Stationery
2004
Searching for Anna May Wong
2020
8 Minutes to Love
2004
Kind of a Blur
2005
There's Someone There
2024
Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March
2022
Sandra Oh, Inspiration
2019