Sandra Oh Bio, Age, Height, Husband, Net Worth, Movies, TV Show & Wiki

Sandra Oh is a Canadian actor who became famous for her appearance as ‘Cristina Yang’ in the smash medical drama series ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ Her appearance in the series earned her two ‘Screen Actors Guild’ awards, a ‘Golden Globe’ award, and five ‘Emmy Award’ nominations for ‘Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.’ Her significant performances in feature films like ‘The Princess Diaries,’ ‘Sideways,’ ‘Under the Tuscan Sun,’ and ‘Last Night,’ have won her critical praise. After beginning her acting career as a child, Sandra received her breakthrough character in the television biopic ‘The Diary of Evelyn Lau,’ at the age of 19.

Her appearance made her a ‘Gemini Award’ nomination and the ‘Cannes FIPA d’Or’ for ‘Best Actress.’ The important character that she performed in the hit TV series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ placed her in the entertainment industry. While her appearance as the sassy assistant ‘Rita Wu’ in the ‘HBO’ comedy ‘Arliss’ got her a ‘Cable Ace’ award, she received critical acclaim for her supporting role as a wine pourer in ‘Sideways.’ She has not only created a niche for herself in Hollywood but has also set an example for Asian actors in Hollywood.

Sandra Oh Wiki/Bio

Birth Name	Sandra Miju Oh
Nick Name	Sandy
Age	(as in 2023) 52 Years
Religion	Christian
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Cancer
Birth Place	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date of Birth	20 July 1971
Nationality	Canadian
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Home Town	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Hobbies	Not Available
Family
Mother’s Name	Oh Young-nam aka Jeon Young-nam (Biochemist)
Father’s Name	Oh Junsu (John) (Businessman)
Brother	Ray (Younger) (Ph.D. in Medical Genetics)
Sister	Grace (Older) (Prosecutor /Lawyer)
Boyfriends/Affairs
Affairs/Boyfriends	• Alexander Payne (2000-2006) • Andrew Featherston • Lever Rukhin aka Lev (2014-Present)
Marital Status, Husband and Children
Husband/Spouse	Alexander Payne (m. 2003–2006)
Marriage Date	January 1, 2003 and Divorced on December 21, 2006
Children	None
Education
School	• Knoxdale Public School • Sir Robert Borden High School, Nepean, Ontario • National Theatre School of Canada
College/University	• Carleton University
Educational Qualification	Graduated
Profession	Actress
Brands Endorsed	• National Canadian Film Day 150 • OnStar commercial
Career Manager	• United Talent Agency (UTA) • Principal Entertainment • Imprint PR (Publicist) • Hansen Jacobson (Attorney)
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in centimeters- 165 cm in meters- 1.65 m in feet inches- 5’5”
Weight (Approx.)	in kilograms- 56 kg in pounds- 124 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	32 Inches
Hips Size	34 Inches
Waist Size	23 Inches
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	Asian
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Dark Brown
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	Not Available
Shoe Size	6.5
Favorite Things
Favorite Korean Food	Her mother’s Bin Dae Dukk
Favorite Make-Up Remover	Neutrogena Eye Make-up Remover
Favorite Beauty Gadgets	Clarisonic brush, LightStim
Favorite Skin Serums	iS Clinical, iGlow Illuminating C Serum, Le Mieux Hyaluronic /Glycolic Serums, Caudalie Resveratrol Serum
Favorite Travel Essentials	No Jet Lag homeopathic, Water, Moisturizer, Journal
Favorite Dream Guests For A Dinner Party	Michelle Obama, Genghis Khan, Buddha
Favorite Dream Team To Collaborate With	Thom Yorke, Ali Wong, Jane Campion, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Favorite Guilty Pleasure	Salty fried food, Salted Caramel, French Fries
Favorite Cuisine	Korean, Japanese, Spanish
Favorite Sources Of Inspiration	Her nieces, teachers, and fears
Favorite Summer Pleasure	Traveling
Favorite Ice-Cream Flavor	Haagen-Dazs limited edition Peanut Butter Brittle
Favorite Korean Restaurant	The Corner Place in LA
Favorite Korean Grocery Store	HK Market on Beverly and Western
Favorite Hangout Place	The Hollywood Bowl
Favorite Café	Metro Café inside a Travelodge in LA
Favorite Shops	Mitsuwa Marketplace, Froma on Melrose
Favorite Places For A Walk	Silver Lake Reservoir, Hancock Park
Favorite Rock Star	Wayne Coyne (Lead singer of The Flaming Lips)
Favorite Vacation Spot	Barcelona, Spain
Favorite TV Show	The Simpsons
Controversies	None

Life Journey

Sandra Oh was born in Nepean, Ontario, on July 20, 1971, the daughter of middle-class South Korean emigrants Oh Jun-su (John), a businessman, and Jeon Young-Nam, a biochemist. Her parents had traveled to the area in the early 1960s.

She has a brother, Ray, and a sister, Grace, and raised up in a Christian household, living on Camwood Crescent in Nepean, where she began acting and practicing ballet at age four to fix her pigeon-toed stance. Rising up, Oh was one of the few youths of Asian origin in Nepean.

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At age ten, Oh performed The Wizard of Woe in a class musical named The Canada Goose. Later, at Sir Robert Borden High School, she established the environmental club BASE (Borden Active Students for the Environment), leading a drive against the use of styrofoam cups.

While in high school, she was selected as a student council president. She also performed the flute and continued both her ballet training and acting studies, though she remembered that she “was not good sufficient to be a trained dancer” and finally concentrated on acting.

She took drama classes, performed in school plays, and followed the drama club, where she took part in the Canadian Improv Games and Skit Row High, a comedy group. Against her parents’ advice, she refused a four-year journalism scholarship to Carleton University to study drama at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal, paying her own way.

Oh told her parents that she would try acting for a few years, and agreed to return to university if it abandoned. Following on forgoing university, she has stated that she is “the only person in the family who doesn’t have a master’s in something”. Soon after graduating from the National Theatre School in 1993, she acted in a stage production of David Mamet’s Oleanna in London, Ontario.

Around the same time, she got characters in biographical television films of two significant female Chinese-Canadians: as Vancouver author Evelyn Lau in The Diary of Evelyn Lau, where she got the performance over more than 1,000 others who auditioned, and as Adrienne Clarkson in a CBC biopic of Clarkson’s life.

Sandra Oh Net Worth

Sandra Oh has a net worth of $28 million dollars.

Oh starred as Cristina Yang, Seattle Grace Hospital’s type-A cardiothoracic surgeon, on Grey’s Anatomy 10 seasons. Toward the end of her time on the show, Oh made $350,000 per episode, according to TV Guide, which amounted to $8.4 million per season, depending on how many episodes there were a season and if Oh starred in all of them.

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The salary earned her the fifth highest-paid TV star at the time, a title she shared with her Grey’s Anatomy costars Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey, who was given the same rate. Ah, the question everyone desires to know: What is Sandra Oh’s net worth. According to WoodGram, Oh’s net worth is $25 million, which seems about right given how much she made on Grey’s Anatomy and continues to make on Grey’s reruns.

Further, she’s also acted in films like Under the Tuscan Sun and The Princess Diaries, which only adds to her bank account. She’s also entertained the 2019 Golden Globes. Though the awards show doesn’t pay astronomical numbers, it still sounds like a pretty penny (some sources report that hosts are paid around $15,000 per awards show) for a few hours of work.

Sandra Oh Movies And TV Shows

• On graduating from the ‘National Theatre School’ in 1993, Sandra Oh was cast in the stage production of David Mamet’s two-character play ‘Oleanna.’
• Around the same time, she landed characters in ‘The Diary of Evelyn Lau,’ a biographical TV film on the author’s life, and in a biopic of Adrienne Clarkson’s life. Sandra got the former position after competing with more than 1,000 participants who auditioned for the role.
• She came to fame with her lead performance in the Canadian film ‘Double Happiness’ in 1994, where she characterized ‘Jade Li,’ an actor striving to cope with the expectations of her Chinese-Canadian family.
• In 1997, she described ‘Bernice,’ a PR manager, in the film ‘Bean.’
• In 1998, she starred in ‘Last Night,’ a Canadian apocalyptic black comedy-drama film. She then appeared in ‘Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity,’ a 2002 Canadian film.
• She acted in ‘Stop Kiss,’ a play written by the American playwright Diana Son. The play was staged in 1998 at ‘The Public Theater’ in New York City.
• She starred in an American drama film titled ‘Dancing at the Blue Iguana’ in 2000, where she performed a stripper working at an adult dance club. In the same year, she was highlighted in ‘Waking the Dead,’ a drama film directed by Keith Gordon.
• In 2002, she performed an important character in the American teen comedy film ‘Big Fat Liar.’ She followed it up with a minor character in Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Full Frontal.’
• She appeared as ‘Rita Wu’ for six seasons in the popular sitcom ‘Arliss.’ The American sitcom premiered on ‘HBO’ in 1996 and continued until 2002.
• She starred in the world premiere of Jessica Hagedorn’s ‘Dogeaters’ at the ‘La Jolla Playhouse.’ The play addressed social, political, and cultural issues that were prevalent in the Philippines during the 1950s.
• Sandra made several guest characters in the American teenage comedy-drama ‘Popular,’ performing a humanities teacher. The show ran for two seasons from 1999 to 2001 on ‘The WB.’
• She also guest-acted on television series, such as ‘Kung Fu: The Legend Continues,’ ‘Six Feet Under,’ ‘Judging Amy,’ and ‘Odd Job Jack.’
• In 2003, she starred in a supporting character in ‘Under the Tuscan Sun,’ followed by a supporting role in the American black comedy-drama ‘Sideways’ in 2004. In 2005, she appeared in a number of films, including David Slade’s thriller ‘Hard Candy.’
• She then performed in the independent anthology drama ‘3 Needles,’ in which she played a Catholic nun in an AIDS-stricken African village.
• In the same year, she was highlighted as ‘Cristina Yang’ on the hit ‘ABC’ medical drama series ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’
• In August 2013, she announced that the show’s tenth season would be her final season.
• While working on ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ she simultaneously performed in several films. She appeared in the thriller ‘The Night Listener’ in 2006; in the comedy film ‘Defendor’ in 2009; ‘Ramona and Beezus’ in 2010; and in the critically praised drama ‘Rabbit Hole’ in 2010.
• She also did a few voice characters, voicing the character of ‘Princess Ting-Ting’ in ‘Mulan II’ and then voicing ‘Doofah’ in ‘The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends.’ She hosted the 28th ‘Genie Awards’ on March 3, 2008.
• In 2009, she played in ‘The People Speak,’ a documentary film that featured dramatic and musical achievements.
• She also performed in the British crime drama ‘Thorne.’ Before commencing her shoot for ‘Thorne,’ she took training from a dialect coach in order to play her British character.
• In October 2014, she stated that she would collaborate with Canadian director Ann Marie Fleming for an animated feature film titled ‘Window Horses.’ The film was delivered in 2016.
• Meanwhile, in 2015, she appeared in the comedy web series ‘Shitty Boyfriends.’ In 2017, she appeared in the comedy film ‘Catfight’ where she performed ‘Veronica Salt.’
• In 2018, she was cast to play the lead character of ‘Eve Polastri’ in the British spy thriller TV series ‘Killing Eve.’ The following year, she co-hosted the 76th ‘Golden Globe Awards.’ In 2019, she also hosted an episode of the popular TV show ‘Saturday Night Live.’

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Facts

1. Her middle name ‘Miju’ suggests ‘pretty pearl’ or ‘beautiful pearl’ in Korean.
2. Apart from English, she delivers fluent Korean, French, and Spanish.
3. Sandra’s siblings and parents are extremely educated. She has stated that in her family, she is the only person who does not have a Master’s degree.
4. While still in school, she also learned to play the flute and the piano.
5. She attempted her first stage performance at the age of 10 in the school play called The Canada Goose.
6. Sandra was also a part of her high school comedy troupe named Skit Row High. As a member of the group, she competed in the Ottawa Improv Games where the group reportedly won the national championship.
7. She was also selected as Student Council President in her high school.
8. By the age of 15, Sandra began getting professional work in theatre, television, and commercials.
9. At the age of 19, she beat 1000 candidates to get cast in the lead character in the TV film, The Diary of Evelyn Lau (1994).
10. In the early 90s, when the actress was financially ruined, she won $5000 Canadian dollars from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Sandra considered it as an encouragement from the universe to continue her pursuits as an actress.
11. Sandra is the beneficiary of two Genie Awards for Best Actress in a Lead Role in 1994 and 1998. The awards are the Canadian version of the Oscars.
12. She received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2011.
13. The day Sandra had to audition for the part of Christina Yang in Grey’s Anatomy, she was overwhelmed by chaos. She skipped her phone and wallet at home and after arriving early to test for the role, she decided to leave the audition because she was having a bad day.
14. Inspirational speaker, Margo Purcell has been Sandra’s best friend since 3rd grade.
15. Sandra is the first woman of Asian origin to get two Golden Globe awards.
16. In 2018, she became the first actress of Asian origin to get nominated for an Emmy award in the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series category for her role as Eve Polastri in Killing Eve.

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