Playing Grabass With McDreamy

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Sandra Oh and Patrick Dempsey in the press room for the 60th Emmy Awards, September 2008.

An Earphone For Sandra

As we posted earlier, Sandra plays the part of a femme fatale in the audio book dramatization of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon. It turns out that the recording is winning awards.

Sandra Oh, Michael Madsen and Edward Herrmann are part of
the cast featured in the recording.

"AudioFile Magazine, the leading publication specifically addressing audiobooks, has selected The Maltese Falcon as a receipient of its prestigous Earphones Award for January 2009.

We at Blackstone Audio are honored to offer this unique and exciting recording."

- Steve King, Blackstone Audio

Earphones are awarded by the AudioFile Magazine. AudioFile reviews audiobooks, original audio programs, commentary and dramatizations in the spoken word format. Their focus is the audio presentation, not the critique of the written material.

Earphones are awarded to "truly exceptional presentations that excel in narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for the audio format, and enhancement of the text".


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Sandra Oh With Her Bro

In this random pic of the day, Sandra Oh celebrates her SAG award for best actress in a drama with her brother in January 2006.

Grey's Anatomy: 5.15 'Before And After' - Press Release

There is a new press release for episode 5.15 of Grey's Anatomy. Unfortunately, there are no pictures of Sandra Oh (Cristina Yang) in the promo stills this time.

FOR THE FIRST TIME THE DOCTORS OF SEATTLE GRACE AND OCEANSIDE WELLNESS WILL TEAM UP -- TO SAVE THE LIFE OF ONE OF THEIR OWN -- ON ABC'S "GREY'S ANATOMY"

Special Guest Stars from "Private Practice" Include Kate Walsh, Audra McDonald and Taye Diggs.

Also Guest Starring Grant Show ("Melrose Place," "Swingtown") as Addison's brother, Archer, and Golden Globe-Nominated Actress Melissa George ("In Treatment," "Alias") as Sadie.

"Before and After" - Addison, Naomi and Sam rush the ailing Archer to Seattle Grace and reunite with old friends Derek and Mark to help save his life; meanwhile, Izzie employs her fellow doctors in a medical game designed to help teach the interns, and Owen runs into a significant someone from his past, on "Grey's Anatomy," THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

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Sandra Is A Femme Fatale

Sandra Oh is one of the narrators of the audiobook dramatization of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon along with Michael Madsen and Edward Herrmann. Sandra plays the part of " the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy".

Click here to listen to a sample featuring Sandra .

Publisher's note:

The Maltese Falcon first appeared in the pages of Black Mask magazine in 1929. Almost immediately it was acknowledged, not only as a great crime novel, but as an enduring masterpiece of American fiction. Sam Spade, its protagonist, is the archetypal tough, cynical P.I., "able," as his creator explained, "to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client."

And what a client! - the irresistible and treacherous femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessy.

Believing the book's vividly drawn characters and memorable dialogue cry out for theatrical treatment, Blackstone Audio commissioned this faithful dramatization by the award-winning Hollywood Theater of the Ear, in which a brilliant cast brings to life all the excitement and suspense of Hammett's original in the playhouse of the mind.

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That Canadian Award

Over her 15-year acting career, Nepean, Ont.-born Sandra Oh has won her fair share of kudos, including several Geminis and a Golden Globe. But yesterday the actress said ACTRA's award of excellence – presented to her at the home of the Canadian consul-general in Los Angeles – ranks up there as one of the most special. Primarily because it originated from her home turf.

“Getting an award from Canada is always more private – and thoughtful for me,” says the actress, on the phone during a break from ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy, where she plays nakedly ambitious doctor Cristina Yang. “It's completely different on so many levels. First, it's my union and the first one I ever joined. … And it's not about one performance, but a larger and continuing body of work,” adds the 37-year-old graduate of Montreal's National Theatre School who starred in HBO's Arli$$ and such films as Sideways.

“It will always be important to me to be recognized by my country. I'm Canadian!”

And she adds that she's always eager to return home to work, citing her most recent Canadian film, Defendor, shot in Hamilton and co-starring Woody Harrelson and Kat Dennings.

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Oh Canada's Star

In this brand new interview with CTV, Sandra talks about Canada, winning the ACTRA award and Barack Obama:

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From Canada With Warm Regards

Sandra Oh at ACTRA Award of Excellence reception held in her honour on January 21, 2009 at the Canadian Residence of Consul General of Canada, David Fransen in Los Angeles, California.

It's 83 degrees Fahrenheit in Los Angeles and after more than a decade living in the U.S., Sandra Oh has forgotten how to do the conversion to Celsius.

"It's really cold there right now, isn't it?" Oh queried over the phone during a break in production for the ABC hit series, Grey's Anatomy. "I used to live in Toronto, I went to (National Theatre School) in Montreal and I grew up in Ottawa. The six months of cold, I got to tell you, I don't really miss it," she added.

Oh was honoured today with the ACTRA Award of Excellence for her work in film and television by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Radio and Television Artists, the Canadian union she's been a member of the past 15 years.

It's another reminder of the special place the Great White North holds in her heart and soul.

"Oh my gosh, of course I miss Canada. My whole family is there, so many of my friends are there," she said.

"I still strongly identify myself as a Canadian, even though I live here in the States and I've lived here for 12 years now," she added.

In fact, she still finds time to come back to Canada to work, doing a stint in Toronto in November on the independent film, Defendor, opposite Woody Harrelson in which she plays a psychiatrist trying to help a man who believes himself to be a superhero of sorts.

The ACTRA award joins a growing list: two Gemini awards for film roles in Double Happiness and Last Night as well as a Golden Globe and a U.S. Screen Actors' Guild Award in 2006 for her work on Grey's Anatomy, not to mention four consecutive Emmy nominations for her portrayal of Dr. Cristina Yang.

The success of the TV series has been a mixed blessing, she acknowledged.

"When I started the show and the show became a hit, my life changed and I still struggle with that," Oh said.

So the ACTRA award helps to "shake me out of the bubble I'm in," she said.

"I'm so pleased and somewhat shocked that I would get an award because that means I've been working a while. If you get an award like this – which is so amazing – it means that you actually have work that people can look at and that people have enjoyed. So it's a tremendous honour," Oh added.

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Sighting 14: Incognito

A behind the scenes photo of Sandra and director Eric Stoltz
on the set of Grey's Anatomy.

January 11 — Last Sunday my girlfriends and I went to Hugo's in the Valley, and who should we spot hanging out in the parking lot (there was a 25-minute wait) but SANDRA OH and ERIC STOLTZ — together. They were there with 5 or 6 other people, but it was clear they were pretty intimate. She was wearing gym clothes, including a large brown hood which she even wore inside the restaurant, which seemed a little odd as it was about 85 degrees. He was wearing an unfortunate beard, but still looked pretty McDreamy. Or McPulpFiction-y. Not at all McMask-y. My friend went over and gave them her card and they were lovely to her. But that hood and that beard, they really have to go.

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Grey's Anatomy: 5.13 'Stairway To Heaven' - Sneak Peek

Now that his mother has met Meredith (Ellen Pompeo), Derek, aka Dr. McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey), wants to take their relationship to the next level and present her with an engagement ring. But he knows she is going to freak -- commitment-phobe that she is -- so he tries to get Cristina (Sandra Oh) to help him. But Cristina and Meredith are still on the outs.

Also in this episode, Dr. Bailey (Chandra Wilson) grows desperate as the young boy under her care is running out of time -- and there is no organ donor in sight. That is, except for the death-row patient (Eric Stolz) who is in the hospital hoping to die at Seattle Grace rather than being executed.

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EW: Masterful And Riveting

Some praise for Sandra and co-star Kevin McKidd for this scene in last week's episode of Grey's Anatomy:

And best yet: Owen showed up to Cristina's for their date hours late and drunk. Okay, that's not really the good part. The good part starts with the fact that he brought her flowers and wore a suit. (And honestly, if a guy was so nervous that he had to get tanked to come pick me up, I might find that endearing. Of course, this might also explain a few of my dating problems.)

The good part continued with Cristina telling him he needed a shower. So, of course, he headed right for hers, fully clothed. And he stood there, under the water stream, and he told her about his best surgery, something about a guy he saved who then later killed himself. It sounds sort of ridiculous, but in the hands of these two, it was masterful, riveting.

And it's worth noting that Hunt is also a wonderfully nuanced depiction of a veteran. No annoying flag-waving and histrionic heroics, just a guy who somehow survived an unbelievable job, and was destroyed by it in some ways, but is still muddling through back in real life now, and still needs love. Anyway, then she stepped into the shower with him, also fully clothed.

And, wow, that was good.

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Tyne Daly And Her Pal

Tyne Daly, who just guest starred in Grey's Anatomy as Mama Shepherd, mentions Sandra in this recent interview.

Sandra and Tyne Daly at a reception for Emmy Award nominees, September 2005.

Had you been a fan of the show, had you watched it before?
Well, now, this is an embarassment to me, because everybody asks me that. When JUDGING AMY was done, I needed a real rest from the world of television, so I no longer own a television set. I moved to New York and started working on the stage, so I’m not current. What I did do when they offered me the part was to ask them for some tapes, so I could get up to speed. They spent me a bunch of stuff, but none of it was from the aught-eight ['08] season!

My friend, Sandra Oh, who I love dearly. She had her very first television job on a CAGNEY AND LACEY television movie that we shot in Toronto and then she did an arc on JUDGING AMY with me which was fun. They sent me the one where she has her big meltdown before the wedding. I borrow the television from a friend who lives on the 4th floor of my building [laughs]. When it’s for work!

Who did you get to interact with besides Patrick [Dempsey] and Ellen [Pompeo]?
She has to wait all day, which she’s sort of used to, because she knows the drill with doctors schedules and she encounters a number of people. His buddy from childhood [Mark], the new guy, he’s come off the experience of doctoring in Iraq [Owen Hunt]. He’s an interesting fellow, the Scot. Of course, Meredith.

I didn’t get to play with Sandra Oh, who is my pal, and I didn’t get to also play with Sara Ramirez, who is another actor who I really admire, and know a little bit from the New York scene, so we were ships that pass in the night [laughs] but perhaps another time!

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Grey's Writers: Nailing It

Jenna Bans on "Sympathy for the Devil"

Cristina and Owen are really having a rocky time of it, aren’t they? Boy meets Girl, Boy kisses Girl, Boy goes off to War and comes back all effed up, Forgets who Girl is, Remembers Girl, Asks Girl on Date then shows up Wasted.

Now Cristina’s still not talking to Mer, still blames Mer for not having her back in the whole interns gone wild debacle, but if things were normal between them, these ladies would have A LOT to talk about.

Like the fact that Owen asked Cristina on a date and then showed up drunk. (But, if you noticed, still brought beautiful flowers - even intoxicated, Owen’s still the consummate gentleman) And the fact that he then proceeded to get in her shower FULLY CLOTHED and tell her about his best surgery ever – which was pretty much a tragic horror story. It’s becoming pretty clear that this guy has been deeply broken by his Iraq experience, and I think Cristina’s finally realizing the extent of the breakage.

But it’s not gonna scare her away. Because it takes a lot to scare Cristina Yang. And because she feels drawn to Owen, despite the warning signs of trouble ahead, despite him wearing shoes in her shower, and when she gets in the water with him at the end, we see something on Cristina Yang’s face that we hardly ever see – the complete absence of judgment. Total acceptance of Owen, battle scars and all. Because we all know that when it comes down to it, when it counts, Cristina’s anything but a robot.

For me, that was probably the most important scene in the script to get right. And Jeannot, our amazing, adorable French director with his adorable French accent, nailed it. (to be perfectly honest, he could have shot his own toes for 42 minutes and I probably would’ve loved that too – seriously, he’s that adorably French) Kevin and Sandra nailed it too. And even though Kevin had to stand in a freezing cold shower for about three hours in an Armani suit, he did not complain ONCE. That guy is game.


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Grey's Anatomy: 5.14 'Beat Your Heart Out" - Stills

"Beat Your Heart Out" - Now that Derek has the engagement ring, he searches for the perfect way to propose to Meredith, as Lexie demands that Mark go public with their relationship, and Bailey, encouraged by her work on recent cases and by Dr. Dixon, considers a new direction for her medical career, on "Grey's Anatomy," THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on ABC.

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Sandra Oh To Receive ACTRA award

TORONTO — Canadian actress Sandra Oh is set to receive yet another award.

The "Grey's Anatomy" star will receive an ACTRA award for her contribution to Canada's film and television industry on Jan. 21.

ACTRA president Richard Hardacre will present the award to the Nepean, Ont., native at a reception at the Canadian consul general's residence in Los Angeles.

The 37-year-old star of "Sideways" and "Double Happiness" has won two Genie awards, a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild awards to go with four Emmy nominations.

She was also host of last year's Genie Awards.

ACTRA is short for The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists.



Source: The Canadian Press

Grey's Anatomy: Faye Dunaway Scrubbing In

What does Sandra Oh, Faye Dunaway and Kevin McKidd have in common? A brand new storyline on Grey's Anatomy. EW's Michael Ausiello reveals:

Someone's been hiding out at Seattle Grace all these years, and trust me when I say you are never going to believe who it is.

Mommie Dearest -- Faye Dunaway!

Sources confirm to me exclusively that the Oscar winner (for Network), who hasn't taken a small-screen gig since a 2006 episode of CSI, has signed on for at least one episode of Grey's Anatomy to air in February. She'll play a renowned doc at the hospital who crosses paths with the Chief, Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Owen (Kevin McKidd).

What do you think? Is this the coolest piece of stunt casting so far this year?

Bundled Up In Pink

Another old candid of Sandra from early 2008, at an airport... somewhere.

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Grey's Anatomy: The Video Game

Screenshots from the game.

French publisher and developer Ubisoft has signed a licensing agreement with ABC Studios which will see it develop a video game based on ABC Studios’ hospital TV drama Grey’s Anatomy for Wii, DS and PC.

The drama, which debuted in 2005 and is currently in its fifth series, is set in Seattle-based Grace Hospital and stars the likes of Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh, Katherine Heigl and Justin Chambers.

“Ubisoft is thrilled to be collaborating with ABC Studios to turn this phenomenal television series into an interactive experience,” VP of worldwide licensing at Ubisoft Christian Salomon stated.

“In Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game, fans will have a chance to take on the roles of all of their favourite doctors in an all-new original storyline. As each doctor, players will make important personal and professional decisions, explore the direct relationships with each other, and perform the delicate surgeries the series is known for, all through fun and engaging game play.”

The game is due out on Wii, DS and PC in “early” 2009.

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Sandra Oh Lends Voice To 'Quantum Quest'

"Quantum Quest," the independently financed 3-D animated film being made in conjunction with NASA, has assembled its voice cast, which will include a pair of Captain Kirks and a pair of Darth Vaders.

William Shatner, Chris Pine, James Earl Jones and Hayden Christensen will topline the voice cast of the $10 million pic that is being financed by Taiwanese toonshop Digimax.

Samuel L. Jackson, Amanda Peet, Jason Alexander, Sandra Oh, Mark Hamill, Abigail Breslin and Spencer Breslin round out the voice cast. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong also will lend his voice, marking his bigscreen debut.

Directed by Dan St. Pierre and Harry Kloor, "Quantum Quest" will bow first in Imax and subsequently in conventional theaters in late 2009.

Story centers on Dave (Pine), a photon who lives in the sun and who is drawn into a galactic battle between the Core (Shatner) and the Void (Hamill).

Penned by Kloor, the film will take the audience to the outer planets and moons of the solar system.

"Quantum Quest" interweaves animated sequences rendered by Digimax with actual space imagery captured from seven ongoing space missions. The pic was initiated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of the outreach program of the Cassini Huygens space mission in 1996.

Kloor is producing through his Jupiter 9 Prods. alongside Digimax's Helen Pao-Yun Huang and Jeff Tzong-Jer Yang. Tom Teng, Teddy Zee, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jon Vein are executive producing.

Digimax will distribute the film in Asia, and Jupiter 9 will handle large-format in all other territories. The producers are looking to line up a domestic distributor for conventional theaters.

Conceived by Kloor ("Star Trek: Voyager"), the project has been gestating since 1996, and with a voice cast that originally included John Travolta and Anne Archer. Production on the film could not begin until the Cassini/Huygens -- a $3.5 billion endeavor -- reached its target and sent back its discoveries. Final images and radar data, providing a partial radar map, were released by NASA this year, enabling the film to proceed.

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Grey's Anatomy: 5.11 'Wish You Were Here' - Sneak Peek 3

One more Grey's Anatomy sneak peek.

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The Guiltiest Pleasure In Town

Thursdays, 9 p.m., ABC

Returns: Thursday

What you need to know: Season five is about new beginnings — Alex and Izzie reboot their relationship, Derek moves into Meredith's home, Christina renews her connection with Owen (Seattle Grace's new head of trauma), and George passes his intern exams and becomes a "real" doctor. It is also about struggle, as Izzie continues to deal with Denny's death. She even begins to see him and is unable to reconcile whether he is actually there or she is hallucinating. Lexie, Meredith's half-sister and a Seattle Grace intern, continues to harbor feelings for George, and is hurt when he does not request her to be part of his intern team. Though they reconcile, she is closed off toward him.

Why you should watch: Despite the hype over the big kiss and romance between Erica and Callie this year, the show's real strength is still in the day-to-day lives of Seattle Grace's doctors and their patients. The show places considerable weight on its guest stars, who generally rise to the challenge and become important aspects of the show even if they only appear in a few episodes. Grey's is a show that spreads the wealth and can bring moving performances out of the smallest roles.

Who to watch for: If you're not hooked on Meredith and Derek's witty banter, check out the connection between Callie and Sloan for the laughs and Christina and Owen for the sizzling sexual tension the show has always been good at delivering. Sandra Oh particularly shines as Christina in her portrayal of the ambitious and emotionally closed-off doctor learning to find love after a devastating breakup.

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Grey's Anatomy: 5.11 'Wish You Were Here' - Sneak Peek 2

Kevin McKidd was on Ellen yesterday where they showed a scene between him and Sandra from the upcoming episode of Grey's Anatomy.

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Food Talk Under The Riviera

Here is an old interview from 1998 with Sandra and her Last Night co-star, Callum Keith Rennie.

Sandra Oh, Don McKellar and Callum Keith Rennie.

CANNES - You don't really want to think about the end of the world as you lounge under the bright Riviera sun. But since that's what their film, Last Night -- showing at the Cannes Film Fest -- is about, actors Callum Keith Rennie and Sandra Oh oblige us with musing of how they might spend their last six hours on earth:

CALLUM: "I'd eat airplane food as my last meal. The kind you'd get in coach. The chicken entree."

SANDRA: "Definitely Korean food. Dumpling soup. Now that's comfort food. And I'd be listening to something by The Clash."

C: "Fractured Atlas by Elvis Costello."

S: "For my last movie? Something really romantic."

C: "Tommy Boy?"

(They both howl with laughter.)

C: "Okay, okay. Wings Of Desire. 'Cause, gosh darnit, the damn thing's so hopeful! Lemme switch that to the last 10 minutes of Apocalypse Now."

S: "Casablanca! Romantic yet bittersweet."

C: "So what about sex?"

S: "I don't know. What if it was bad sex? Forget it!"

C (smiling wickedly): "You can make even bad sex good."

S: "Too much pressure."

C: "I'd be so tense, I'd need a release."

S: "But what if you couldn't release in TIME?"

C: "But to go out while doing it ... the explosion in the end would be like ... death."

S: "So the end of the world would be like one Big O?"

C: "Yeah."

S (teasing him about his brief nude scene in the film): "All you've been doing the last two days is obsessing about your ass."

C (defensive): "It's just I've never seen it in that framework before. I don't want the terror of seeing my own ass on screen. What if I like it -- a LOT?" (He laughs.)

S: "I think it's very important we see Callum's ass in the film. We never get to see enough men's asses on screen."

C: "Let's change the subject."

S: "Okay. The last book I'd read? Sexing The Cherry -- there's one page that describes these magnetic beings that are dancing ... spinning until they become particles of light."

C: "I'd read The Toronto Sun. No question."

By Natasha Stoynoff

Source: Toronto Sun; May 24, 1998

Grey's Anatomy: 5.11 'Wish You Were Here' - Sneak Peek

"Wish You Were Here" - Bailey teams with Seattle Grace's new pediatric surgeon, Dr. Arizona Robbins, to save the life of a young patient near and dear to her heart, as the admittance of a death row inmate at the hospital stirs anger in Derek and further erodes Meredith and Cristina's friendship; meanwhile, Callie and Sloan work as a team to fight their respective attractions to Sadie and Lexie, and Izzie tells Alex that she's seeing Denny, on "Grey's Anatomy," THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on ABC.

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