LOS ANGELES — I have only three words to say about Canadian actress Sandra Oh after watching her in the finale of Grey's Anatomy: Emmy, Emmy, Emmy.
While there are a lot of fine actors on the series, it's no accident that Oh, whose background is in theatre and dance, is emerging as the finest of the lot.
"Everybody's serious about putting the show out, but Sandra is just that much more disciplined," an ABC cameraman said.
"Sandra's usually the first one on the set. She never lets personal issues get in the way; she stays clear of gossip but more importantly, she comes in really knowing her lines, like backwards and forwards," the source said.
That hard work has turned her character, Dr. Cristina Yang, into one of the most interesting, ground-breaking female heroines on television.
In the two-hour final episode, with a gunman running rampant through Seattle Grace Hospital, there was great scene after great scene. The entire cast was fantastic especially Chandra Wilson, who plays Dr. Bailey.
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But who can deny that Oh's performance was the diamond on the cake when she found herself performing a life-saving operation on her boss and best friend's husband, Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), as a psychopath presses a gun to her head demanding she stop and let Shepherd die. (Our beloved, tough-lady doc, of course, ends up saving the day).
All's well that ends well in the continuing TV medical drama, but after that scene, the Emmy academy would be nincompoops not to give her the best-actress award during the next ceremony in July.
In her five years on Grey's, Oh has been nominated for an Emmy each year, but has yet to win.
Of course, she has won plenty of other awards: A couple of Genie Awards for her turn in two Canadian films — Double Happiness and Last Night; a Golden Globe for her role in Grey's in 2005; a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2006 — also for Grey's.
Moreover, Oh and the rest of the cast of Sideways — which she considered her best film — won four different best ensemble awards from a variety of places such as the Boston Society of Film Critics and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Oh, who turns 39 on July 21, is known in the business as one of the hardest working actresses in town. And the single actress admits it may have gotten in the way of her personal life. "As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it," she said in a previous interview.
Indeed, while shooting the remaining episodes of Grey's last month, she was also working on the movie Rabbit Hole, a melodrama with Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart and Dianne Weist.
The shooting and post-production of Rabbit Hole is supposed to be finished so Oh can start filming the sixth season of Grey's in July.
What a woman!
OUT TO LUNCH: It's a good thing Justin Bieber has fellow Canadian musicians to protect him in Hollywood such as Drake, Avril Lavigne and Sum 41's Deryck Whibley.
The cute little 16-year-old Bieber got sucked into a lunch date with singer Miley Cyrus, 17, at West Hollywood's sushi joint Ari Ya, a week before his blow-out concert here at Wango Tango.
Bieber later flatly denied the two were dating, even saying, "Miley's not my type."
But the rest of the time he was here, it was Lavigne, Drake and Whibley (and his manager, rapper Usher) who kept him sheltered from anyone else trying to hang on to his ascending star.
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