Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh
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NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth20 July 1971
CityNepean, Canada
CountryCanada
life-changing way needs
When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?
basically great hbo
I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.
places strangely
I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.
asian close higher understand
In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.
church korean
Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church,
hair grew young
I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You grow into a lot of things.
hero giving people
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
fun nice people
I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.
culture london feels
I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.
jobs actors agents
I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.
actors likes hollywood
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
jobs mean years
All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.
becoming calling actors
Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.
white people casting
A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white.