5 Things You Didn’t Know About Sandra Oh

Sandra Oh is finally having her moment. After stealing our hearts as beloved best friend, truth-teller (and the most heartbreaking on-screen crier of all time) Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy and charming us in Sideways, Oh took center stage in 2018’s female-driven thriller series Killing Eve as the title character.

The world thankfully seems to have caught onto the Sandra Oh fandom now that Killing Eve has become a hit show and Oh has received the accolades she deserves; not only did Oh cohost the 2019 Golden Globe Awards with Andy Samberg (one of the only actually enjoyable hosting stints in recent memory), she also won the Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Drama Series category. Both achievements were history-making: Oh was both the first performer of Asian heritage to host the Golden Globes and the first Asian actor to win multiple Globes.

So now that we’ve established that if you didn’t love Oh already, you very likely do now, you’re probably going to want to learn everything you can about her. Without further ado, here are five things you didn’t know about Sandra Oh:

1. Oh is actually Canadian!
Despite playing American-in-London Eve Polastri, Oh is Canadian: Her Korean parents immigrated to Canada in the 1960s, settling in the suburbs of Ottawa. She was given a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2011. Oh told Vogue last year that she’s “sure everyone carries the feeling of being the other. Being a Korean-Canadian growing up in Canada, being a Canadian living in America—there’s always this slightly outsider point of view, which I really try to embrace.”

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