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
Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.
Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.
I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
Can you get any better than Patrick Dempsey? I don't think so!
I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.
I went up a pants size during my pregnancy.
I don't like everybody who I see on TV.
Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.
It is challenging. I have my days where I feel really guilty that I've been here every day if I have to work a lot. But I am so lucky to live in a country where a girl like me can make this kind of living, achieve her dreams and reach her goals. And I don't think anywhere else in the world can girls have the freedom that we do here to have these amazing careers and be mothers.
You know, Boston people are full of sauce.
I'm extremely proud of our very, very diverse cast which represents the world that I walk around in every day.. I didn't see it last night when I watched the Emmys.
This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.
~I got pregnant, and I was like, 'Oh God, it worked! Oh no!' Chris [Ivery, her husband] and I were super happy, then I got terrified! Will I know how to do everything right? Of course, nobody does everything right, but as long as your baby is the priority, that's the best you can do.~