Can Sandra Oh speak Korean?
Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress born on July 20, 1971, in Nepean (now Ottawa), Ontario, Canada. Oh won two Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Last Night and Double Happiness and won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a…
Sandra Oh is a Canadian actress born on July 20, 1971, in Nepean (now Ottawa), Ontario, Canada. Oh won two Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Last Night and Double Happiness and won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for The Diary of Evelyn Lau.
Sandra hosted the 28th Genie Awards in 2008 and became the first woman of Asian descent to host the Golden Globe Awards at the 76th ceremony in 2019. In March 2019, she became the first Asian-Canadian woman to host Saturday Night Live, and was the third actress of Asian descent to do so, after Lucy Liu in 2000 and Awkwafina in 2018.
Can Sandra Oh speak Korean?
Sandra Oh a fluent Korean speaker. But she was determined to nail just the sort of Korean Ji-Yoon should speak that American-accented, English-inflected take on her parents’ mother tongue that second-generation immigrants with roots all over the globe slip into at home and family gatherings. I speak such baby Korean,” says Oh. “I was adamant that I needed to get my Korean up to the correct level that Korean-Americans speak Konglish to their parents.
