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SANDRA OH (Jenny Yum/Producer) was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada. She started ballet lessons at the age of four and appeared in her first play, “The Canada Goose,” at the age of ten. She started working professionally at age 16 in television, theater, and commercials. After three years at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada, she beat out more than 1,000 other hopefuls and landed 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. Her performance brought her a Gemini nomination for best actress and the 1994 Cannes FIPA d’Or for best actress. Oh can be seen starring in the Netflix comedy series “The Chair,” for which she received Screen Actors Guild Award® and Critics Choice Award nominations. She also served as an executive producer for the show. She recently completed the fourth and final season of BBC America’s “Killing Eve,” on which she also serves as executive producer. Oh won a historic Golden Globe Award® for best actress in a drama series, a SAG Award for female actor in a drama series and a Critics Choice Award for lead actress in a drama series for “Killing Eve,” and has also received three Emmy Award® nominations for lead actress in a drama series. On the feature film front, she recently starred in the Disney·Pixar animated film “Turning Red” on Disney+, and in the psychological thriller “Umma” for Sony Pictures. Oh hosted an episode of “Saturday Night Live,” for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award® in the category of outstanding guest actress in a comedy series. She starred in 10 seasons of the hit ABC series “Grey’s Anatomy,” winning a Golden Globe Award® and Screen Actors Guild Award® and receiving two Emmy Award® nominations for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang. Previously, Oh starred in the enormously successful, Oscar®-winning Fox Searchlight feature film “Sideways,” for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award® for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture. On stage, Oh starred in “Death and the Maiden” at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and 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. Never straying far from her theatre roots, she 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 9 Public Theatre in New York, a role for which she received a Theatre World award. She also performed “The Vagina Monologues” in New York. Recently Oh was back at the Public in New York, in Hansol Jung’s “Wild Goose Dreams,” which participated in the 2016 Sundance MENA workshop in Morocco. Oh’s additional feature film credits include “Under the Tuscan Sun,” “Defender,” “Blindness,” “The Night Listener,” “For Your Consideration,” “Three Needles,” “Long Life Happiness and Prosperity,” “Sorry, Haters,” “Tammy,” “Ramona and Beezus,” “Rick,” “Bean,” “Guinevere,” “The Red Violin,” “Waking the Dead,” “The Princess Diaries” and “Pay or Play.” She also starred in Michael Radford’s improvised “Dancing at the Blue Iguana,” a bleak and raw view of life in a strip club in Los Angeles. Her 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. 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 final Cable Ace award for best actress in a comedy. More recently she starred in “Catfight,” opposite Anne Heche, and the animated features “Over the Moon,” “Raya and the Last Dragon” and “Window Horses.” Her additional television credits include the British production of “Thorne: Scaredy Cat,” HBO’s “Six Feet Under,” and Showtime’s “Further Tales of the City.”