Sandra Oh has a whopping 13 Emmy nominations protecting her efficiency as Eve Polaski in Killing Eve in addition to her producing credit on the acclaimed sequence, in addition to for visitor stints on SNL and one other 5 nominations for enjoying Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC’s long-running Gray’s Anatomy, which she left in 2014 after engaged on the present for a stable decade.
She is bound to be again within the Emmy dialog once more this yr not simply as soon as for the fourth and remaining season of Killing Eve but additionally for the Netflix sequence The Chair. This implies she may very well be again in competition the Lead Actress Drama for Eve in addition to Lead Actress Comedy for The Chair. Each could be well-merited for this terrific actor, who is also making statements together with her profession selections about being one of many uncommon Asian leads on tv sequence. We talked about all of it when she joined me for this week’s version of my Deadline video sequence The Actor’s Facet.
Oh has made her mark on the massive display as properly, notably in Sideways and Beneath the Tuscan Solar amongst different live-action movies, after which in animated options like 2020’s Over the Moon, 2021’s Oscar nominated Raya and the Final Dragon, and the present Pixar launch Turning Purple. She is consistently working and profitable excessive reward for her performances in addition to for her social conscience.
In The Chair she performs Ji-Yoon Kim, the uncommon feminine Asian chief of a small faculty the place her skilled and private life will get intertwined in distinctive methods. We discuss that, in addition to the emotional and stunning finish of the road for Killing Eve, plus a lot extra.
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