Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Kathleen Pompeois an American actress and producer. Born in Everett, Massachusetts, Pompeo moved to New York City, at the age of twenty-six, where she was discovered by a casting director who signed her for an advertisement campaign for L'Oreal. She made her screen debut with NBC's legal drama Law & Order, and then appeared in several other television shows, including the dark comedy Strangers with Candy, the medical drama Strong Medicine and the sitcom Friends...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth10 November 1969
CityEverett, MA
CountryUnited States of America
People love to watch a train wreck, I suppose.
Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.
I think for any actor to say they don't like attention is ridiculous. Of course we love attention. But getting attention is different than pretending the attention means something.
The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1.
For me, being able to work with somebody who I don't have to translate my experience to all the time - that's important, because I'm not having to walk someone down the path of racial understanding to tell a story about a woman of color.
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.
Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.
I don't believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.
I am who I am, a Southie.
I’m the Renee Zellweger now. Jewel is the me now. There is no more Jewel.
Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing - especially for young girls.
I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
I was never a person who was introduced to junk food.
Being a mother is magical.