Sandra Oh

### Credit(s)

Actor • Associate Producer (S1) • Co-Executive Producer (S2) • Executive Producer (S3)

### Show Status

Starring
Active (producer)

### Show Years

2018-2020

**Sandra Oh** portrays Eve Polastri on *Killing Eve*. She is also an executive producer as of the third season, having functioned as an associate producer and co-executive producer for the first and second season, respectively.

## Biography

Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Sandra started ballet lessons at the age of four and appeared in her first play The Canada Goose at the age of 10. She started working professionally at age 16 in television, theatre 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 (Canada's Emmy) nomination for Best Actress and the 1994 Cannes FIPA d’Or for Best Actress.

Sandra won a Golden Globe® Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on the hit ABC series Grey’s Anatomy, as well as receiving two Emmy® Award nominations. Previously, Sandra starred in the enormously successful 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, Sandra 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 (Canada's Oscar) 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, Sandra 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 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 Sundance MENA workshop in Morocco last year.

Sandra was previously seen in the British production of Thorne: Scaredy Cat. Her additional feature film credits include Tammy, Defendor, Blindness, The Night Listener, For Your Consideration, Three Needles, Long Life Happiness and Prosperity, Under the Tuscan Sun, Sorry Haters, 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. Most recently, she starred in Catfight opposite Anne Heche, and the animated feature Window Horses.

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 Arli$$, for which she won the final Cable Ace award for Best Actress in a Comedy. Her additional television credits include HBO's Six Feet Under, and Showtime's Further Tales of the City.

## Career

### Filmography

* *Meditation Park* (2017)
* *Catfight* (2016)
* *Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming* (2016)
* *Snowtime!* (2015)
* *The Scarecrow (short)* (2015)
* *Tammy* (2014)
* *A Helping Hand (short)* (2012)
* *Thorne: Scaredycat* (2010)
* *Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey* (2010)
* *Rabbit Hole* (2010)
* *Ramona and Beezus* (2010)
* *Defendor* (2009)
* *Blindness* (2008)
* *The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends* (2007)
* *Falling (short)* (2007)
* *For Your Consideration* (2006)
* *The Night Listener* (2006)
* *Cake* (2005)
* *Sorry, Haters* (2005)
* *3 Needles* (2005)
* *Kind of a Blur (short)* (2005)
* *Break a Leg* (2005)
* *Hard Candy* (2005)
* *Stationary (short)* (2004)
* *Mulan II* (2004)
* *8 Minutes to Love (short)* (2004)
* *Sideways* (2004)
* *Wilby Wonderful* (2004)
* *Under the Tuscan Sun* (2003)
* *Rick* (2003)
* *It Wasn't Supposed to Be Like This... (short)* (2003)
* *Owning Mahowny* (2003)
* *Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity* (2002)
* *Full Frontal* (2002)
* *Barrier Device (short)* (2002)
* *Big Fat Liar* (2002)
* *Date Squad (short)* (2001)
* *The Princess Diaries* (2001)
* *Three Lives of Kate (short)* (2000)
* *Dancing at the Blue Iguana* (2000)
* *Walking the Dead* (2000)
* *Guinevere* (1999)
* *Permanent Midnight* (1998)
* *The Red Violin* (1998)
* *Last Night* (1998)
* *Bad Day on the Block* (1997)
* *Bean* (1997)
* *Cowgirl (short)* (1996)
* *Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling* (1995)
* *Prey (short)* (1995)
* *Double Happiness* (1994)
* *The Diary of Evelyn Lau* (1994)
* *School's Out!* (1992)
* *The Journey Home (short)* (1989)

### Television

* *Invincible* (????)
* *The Chair* (????)
* *Killing Eve* (2018-2020)
* *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power* (2018-2019)
* *Saturday Night Live: Cut For Time* (2019)
* *American Crime* (2017)
* *Peg + Cat* (2016)
* *Shitty Boyfriends* (2015)
* *Grey's Anatomy* (2005-2014)
* *Betas* (2014)
* *American Dad!* (2005-2013)
* *Phineas and Ferb* (2008-2012)
* *Michael: Every Day* (2011)
* *Robot Chicken* (2009)
* *American Dragon: Jake Long* (2006-2007)
* *Odd Job Back* (2006)
* *The Proud Family* (2001-2002)
* *Arli$$* (1996-2002)
* *Judging Amy* (2001)
* *Six Feet Under* (2001)
* *Further Tales of the City (mini-series)* (2001)
* *Popular* (1999)
* *Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child* (1999)
* *Cousin Skeeter* (1998)
* *Kung Fu: The Legend Continues* (1996)
* *Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years* (1995)
* *If Not for You* (1995)
* *E.N.G.* (1993)
* *Denim Blues* (1989)

### Producer

* *The Chair* (????)
* *Killing Eve* (2018-2020)
* *Window Horses* (2016)

## Credits on *Killing Eve*

### Starring

 **Credited**
 "I Have a Thing About Bathrooms":
 **Credited**

 **Credited**
 "Smell Ya Later":
 **Credited**

 **Credited**
 "Are You From Pinner?":
 *No Credit*

### Associate Producer

 **Credited**
 "I Have a Thing About Bathrooms":
 **Credited**

### Co-Executive Producer

 **Credited**
 "Smell Ya Later":
 **Credited**

### Executive Producer

 **Credited**
 "Are You From Pinner?":
 **Credited**

## Notes and Trivia

* Sandra became the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Eve Polastri
* Sandra Oh won the 2019 Golden Globe award for *Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama* for her portrayal of Eve Polastri
* Sandra Oh won the 2019 Critics' Choice award for *Best Actress in a Drama Series* for her portrayal of Eve Polastri
* Sandra Oh won the 2019 SAG award for *Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series* for her portrayal of Eve Polastri

## External Links

* Sandra Oh on Wikipedia
* Sandra Oh at the Internet Movie Database
* Sandra Oh on Twitter
* Sandra Oh on Instagram

## References

1. ↑ http://time.com/5336867/sandra-oh-emmy-nomination/
2. ↑ https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/sandra-oh
3. ↑ https://www.goldderby.com/article/2019/2019-critics-choice-awards-winners-list-news/
4. ↑ https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/2019-sag-awards-winners-list-1203119846/