Grey's Anatomy stars Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh and Eric Dane were on hand at the Screen Actors Guild awards last night. Here are the three stars ...
Eric Dane, of course, is with his lovely wife, Rebecca Gayheart. What do you think of Ellen and Sandra's choice of outfits? For more photos of these great Grey's Anatomy cast members at the ceremony, just follow this link here.
Despite a new deal signed by the Director's Guild of America, Sandra Oh is playing down hopes that Grey's Anatomy's fourth season can be salvaged.
The Director's Guild made a peace pact with Hollywood's studios, leading many to speculate it could spark a resolution to the writers' strike - now three months old and counting - that has crippled the television season.
But the award-winning actress, at the Sundance Film Festival this year as a festival juror, remains more cautious than optimistic going forward.
"The longer we're out, the less chance we have of completing the season," the Canadian-born Sandra Oh told the Winnipeg Sun.
"I don't know the (DGA) deal. I don't necessarily think the DGA and the WGA have the same needs ... But everyone wants to go back to work. I was out on the line the other day and the writers are really, really suffering."
Sadly, Sandra Oh doesn't expect to wave the strike goodbye soon.
Even if Hollywood's scribes resolve their walkout promptly, that doesn't mean labor peace is assured - the industry's actors could still strike themselves, over many of the same issues, when their own contract expires in June.
"The DGA membership is less than 5,000. There are over 150,000 Screen Actors Guild members," Sandra Oh said. "Their needs cannot be the same, especially in terms of new media. Actors live on residuals."
So while Oh and everyone else in L.A. waits for an end to the labor strife, she's just thrilled to focus on seeing - and supporting - The Sundance Film Festival's latest crop of independent fare. Who can blame her?
"Why not champion films that don't have a giant budget?" she said. "Do we need to support the next M:I-6? I'm not here for that."
Take that, Tom Cruise.
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello has some scoop on Joshua Jackson's future guest spot on Grey's Anatomy - as well as a rumor that a cast member wants out:
Question: Some very mean and nasty people have been saying that Sandra Oh is leaving Grey's Anatomy, whenever it comes back. Since you are known as the god of TV scoop, I knew you'd be able to deny this for me.
TV Guide: Unfortunately, I can't verify that rumor's authenticity. What I can verify is that someone â" and a major someone â" wants to be discharged from Seattle Grace, STAT. But, as far as I can tell, that someone is not Sandra Oh.
Thankfully, it looks like the awesome Sandra Oh will be staying put.
Question: You mentioned that Joshua Jackson's three-episode Grey's Anatomy arc was delayed indefinitely because of the writers' strike. However, there's a new Grey's Anatomy airing this Thursday. Will he be in that episode?
TV Guide No, hence the "delayed indefinitely" thing. The good news is that I hear Shonda Rhimes has every intention of shoe-horning Joshua Jackson into Seattle Grace (and Cristina's bed) the second the strike is over.
Stylishly dressed Sandra Oh may look the part of Hollywood star, but get her talking about the writers' strike and her Canadian sensibility comes blasting through.
"There are some Canadian crew members on Grey's Anatomy, and myself and the Canadian crew are talking about the strike in a way that is much more socialist based than the Americans," the 36-year-old actress tells The Canadian Press.
"We get the point. We're like: 'Absolutely, you have to strike.' This is the most important industry strike ever. It speaks tremendously to how the media is run globally now, and the rights of thousands and thousands of workers. I am really hoping that the producers come to the table and are fair to the writers."
Sandra Oh was in her native country Monday to be honored by the Women in Film and Television organization with this year's CTV International Achievement Award.
It was a good day for the Ottawa-based Oh family - Sandra's beaming parents were on hand to watch their actress daughter get feted by her Canadian peers while her brother, Raymond, was spending the day doing his final oral exam on his PhD thesis on medical genetics at the University of Toronto.
"I am extremely proud of him," Sandra Oh says, crediting her South Korean-born parents with their children's successes. Her sister, Grace, is a B.C. Crown attorney.
"They were extremely loving parents but they were also really disciplined. They were tough on us. Their expectations were high; they're still high."
It's family, in fact, that has kept Sandra Oh so grounded.
"People are crazy. Actors are notoriously crazy. And when you go down to L.A., people are even crazier. And fortunately I had an extremely stable, loving upbringing. My siblings and I are very close, and that means something."
Oh's acting career began in the early 1990s when she beat out hundreds of other actresses for the coveted title role in the CBC movie The Diary of Evelyn Lau.
Since then, she's been pretty much unstoppable, starring in films like Sideways and Under the Tuscan Sun before landing the part of the ferociously ambitious Dr. Cristina Yang on the ABC powerhouse hit, Grey's Anatomy.
Is love in the air? Grey's Anatomy star Sandra Oh walks with new musician boyfriend Andrew Featherston through the streets of Los Feliz on Sunday...
Andrew Featherson is a percussionist in the indie band The Hereafter. While she has been separated since 2005, Sandra Oh officially divorced writer / director Alexander Payne just last Thursday. Here's hoping she's happy!
One of the most prominent members of the Grey's Anatomy cast, Sandra Oh, has finalized her divorce with Sideways writer-director Alexander Payne.
Oh, 36, and Payne, 46, were in a relationship for five years, including two years of marriage. They married on January 1, 2003 and separated in 2005.
Although their marital status officially ended on December 22, the former couple took more than two years to settle their finances.
In March 2005, a spokeswoman for the actress confirmed that Sandra Oh and Alexander Payne had "mutually decided to separate."
Added the rep: "They have been together for five years and were married in [January] 2003. The couple will remain friends."
Sandra Oh filed for divorce the following month in Los Angeles Superior Court. According to her filing, the Grey's Anatomy star was seeking spousal support. In his divorce response, Payne sought to deny those payments.
It was the first marriage for both; they had no children together.
In an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the set of Grey's Anatomy, USA Today's William Keck lends his observations of what goes on that we don't see...
Sandra Oh looks sleepy, wrapped in a parka and heading to her chair. Hers is special compared with all the others' standard-issue director's chairs. Oh's has extra padding, a fancy curved foot rest and a canvas compartment under the seat. While the other actors have their full names silk-screened onto the backs of their chairs, Sandra Oh's is marked with two block letters: OH. She never talks to on-set journalists, but she offers a friendly late-in-the-day wink as she walks by.
Trailer mates
Justin Chambers (Alex Karev) shares his trailer, or "tin box," as he calls it, with Katherine Heigl (Izzie Stevens). "I hear her loud mouth all the time â" girl's got a loud mouth," he kids. Heigl slams right back: She says she has to listen to "trailer buddy" Chambers' daily doses of Judge Judy or Montel Williams. "I think he falls asleep with the TV on," she playfully groans. Chambers has more expansive digs off-set. Over the summer he purchased a California home with his wife Keisha. Each of his five kids now has his or her own room!
Cute little cuss
Sandra Oh has a habit of playfully cussing in scenes when she's not on camera, at one point asking Ellen Pompeo, "What the (expletive) was that?" and calling Pompeo's Meredith "a whore." Says T.R. Knight (George), who shares his on-set trailer with Oh: "She has done that, always."
A quick look at four Grey's Anatomy beauties and their Emmy Awards outfits last night, with plenty more pictures to come later ...
TOP ROW: Newlywed Kate Walsh is red hot in her cowl-neck crimson satin Pamela Dennis gown, Neil Lane diamonds and matching lips, while engaged Ellen Pompeo that her "boyfriend" Michael Kors created her feminine navy gown that she paired with jewels from Fred Leighton.
BOTTOM ROW: Katherine Heigl is a throwback to Old Hollywood in her fish tail Zac Posen gown, Mary Norton clutch and classic red lips, while Sandra Oh is the picture of refined elegance in her black and white Bottega Veneta gown and H. Stern's diamond jewels.
Who's outfit is your favorite? What are your thoughts?
According to InStyle, Sandra Oh hosted an intimate evening at a private home in the Hollywood Hills to toast her fellow female Emmy nominees.
Sandra Oh's Grey's Anatomy co-star, Chandra Wilson, as well as guest such as Elizabeth Perkins of Weeds and Holland Taylor of Two and a Half Men all arrived at the exclusive event in hybrid cars to enjoy a laid-back dinner and plenty of Perrier-Jouet Fleur de Champagne.
"I'm hoping this event will continue as a yearly invitation to the female nominees to get together and get to know each other, because on the big day it's so crazy and you're not completely in your body," Sandra Oh said of her attempt to start a new Emmy tradition.
More pictures of Sandra Oh and friends after the jump ...
"Brave New World"
Thursday, October 16, 9 p.m. (NEW, 5.4)
Derek discovers Ellis Grey's old diary in the house and Mer freaks out. Callie prepares for her first "date" with Erica. Cristina stumbles into a part of the hospital that neither she nor her fellow residents have seen before.
