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Sandra Oh

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Sandra Oh is a Canadian and American actress born in 1971 who built her career across Canadian film and North American television. She first gained recognition for the Canadian films Double Happiness and The Diary of Evelyn Lau, winning a Genie Award for each, and is best known as Rita Wu in Arliss, Dr. Cristina Yang in Grey's Anatomy and Eve Polastri in Killing Eve. She has won one Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. She has voiced characters in animated films and series such as Mulan II, Over the Moon, Raya and the Last Dragon and Turning Red, and played the lead role and was an executive producer of the Netflix series The Chair. She hosted the Golden Globe Awards in 2019 and Saturday Night Live the same year.

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Primetime Emmy Award 1
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Golden Globe Award 1
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Genie Award 1
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1971 1
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Performer 1
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1. Sandra Oh (Wikipedia)
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    born July 20, 1971
  • Lead, role
    is a Canadian and American actress
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    one Primetime Emmy Award from 14 nominations
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    two Golden Globe Awards
  • Lead, award (3)
    won Genie Awards for both films
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