
Sandra Oh
Biography
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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Acting History
2025
Twelfth Night as Olivia
2025Good Fortune as Martha
2025Can I Get a Witness? as Ellie
2025Smurfs as Moxie Smurf (voice)
2024There's Someone There as Self (archival footage)
2024The Sympathizer as Sofia Mori
2024The Tiger's Apprentice as Mistral (voice)
2023Quiz Lady as Jenny Yum
2023Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai as Nuwa (voice)
2022The Same Storm as Grace Park
2022The Sandman as The Prophet (voice)
2022Umma as Amanda
2022Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red as Self (archive footage)
2022Turning Red as Ming (voice)
2021The Chair as Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim
2021INVINCIBLE as Debbie Grayson (voice)
2021Raya and the Last Dragon as Virana (voice)
2020She Walks with Apes as Narrator
2020Over the Moon as Mrs. Zhong (voice)
2020Dear... as Self
2020Asian Americans as Self
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Daughter of Shanghai as Self
2019This Changes Everything as Self
2019Sandra Oh, Inspiration as Self
2018She-Ra and the Princesses of Power as Castaspella (voice)
2018Killing Eve as Eve Polastri
2017Meditation Park as Ava
2017Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
2017Window Horses as Rosie Ming (voice)
2016Catfight as Veronica
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
2015The Scarecrow as Evelyn
2015Women Who Act as Self
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014Tammy as Susanne
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
2011Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays as Dr. Judy Song
2010Rabbit Hole as Gabby
2010Thorne
2010Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey as Gal 2000 (voice)
2010Ramona and Beezus as Mrs. Meacham
2009The People Speak as Self
2009Defendor as Dr. Park
2008Blindness as Minister of Health
2007The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends as Doofah (voice)
2007Phineas and Ferb as Dr. Doofenshmirtz's Girlfriend (voice)
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006For Your Consideration as Marketing Person
2006The Night Listener as Anna
2005Kind of a Blur as Joe
2005Sorry, Haters as Phyllis
20053 Needles as Mary the Nun
2005Cake as Lulu
2005Break a Leg as Young Turk
2005Grey's Anatomy as Cristina Yang
2005American Dad! as Katie (voice)
2005American Dad! as Hiko Yoshida (voice)
2005American Dragon: Jake Long
2005Hard Candy as Judy Tokuda
2004Mulan II as Ting Ting (voice)
2004Sideways as Stephanie
20048 Minutes to Love
2004Wilby Wonderful as Carol French
2004Stationery as Voice
2004Weird Sex and Snowshoes: A Trek Through the Canadian Cinematic Psyche as Jade Li / Sandra (archive footage)
2003Under the Tuscan Sun as Patti
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Rick as Michelle
2003Owning Mahowny as Craps Player (uncredited)
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity as Kim Ho Lum
2002Full Frontal as Fourth Fired Employee
2002Barrier Device as Audrey
2002Big Fat Liar as Mrs. Caldwell
2001Dancing at the Blue Iguana as Jasmine
2001The Proud Family as Marsha Mitsubishi (voice)
2001The Princess Diaries as Vice Principal Gupta
2001Six Feet Under as Porn Starlet
2001Further Tales of the City as Bambi Kanetaka
2000Waking the Dead as Kim
1999Popular as Humanities Teacher
1999Judging Amy as Detective Shelly Tran
1999Guinevere as Cindy
1998The Red Violin as Madame Ming (Montréal)
1998Last Night as Sandra
1998Permanent Midnight as Friend
1997Bean as Bernice Schimmel
1996Arli$$ as Rita Wu
1996The Daily Show as Self
1995Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling as Officer Angela Lum
1995Prey as Il Bae
1995Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years
1995If Not for You as Anna
1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Breadcrumb (voice)
1995Little Criminals as uncredited
1994Double Happiness as Jade Li
1994The Diary of Evelyn Lau as Evelyn Lau
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
1993Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Mai Chi
1989Denim Blues as Gwen
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1971Great Performances as Olivia
1953The Oscars as Self
1944Golden Globe Awards as Self - Host
—Fairyheart as Iris (voice)
—Child's Play as Marlene Lee







