After a breakout role in the HBO sports-agent comedy Arli$$in 1996, followed by a big-screen turn in Beanalongside Rowan Atkinson in 1997, Oh appeared in the critically acclaimed indie film Sideways (directed by ex-husband Alexander Payne) alongside Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen. Later on, in between Grey’s Anatomy and Killing Eve, she also starred in American Crimeand several stage projects. She told Vanity Fair, “Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity. I think it’s just as important what you say no to as what you say yes to.” Her latest “yes” is to The Chair on Netflix, a six-episode comedy series in which she stars as Ji-Yoon Kim, the first woman of color to be chair of the English department at the fictional Pembroke University. In addition to picking projects that fit with her interests as an artist, Oh also recognizes the importance of Asian representation onscreen and has been candid about the struggles she’s faced in her work, as well as its effects on her casting. “The way that I’ve had to deal with it is to try to find a completely different way of looking at it, to think about what being an actor is all about,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “Is it trying to fit into this paradigm? Why am I trying to get into a room where they don’t want me? I always feel like, why wait for a call from a guy who’s not into you? I’m focusing on my work and either people will respond to it or not.” She added, “What I would say to actresses of color is to really be honest about why you’re in the game. Is it to have a zillion followers on Instagram? Is it to be on thousands of screens across the country? What do you really want? I’ve constantly asked myself that question over and over in my career and it gets more and more refined.” Those choices have served Oh well. Find out Sandra Oh’s net worth and how she earned it through three decades in Hollywood.
How much is Sandra Oh worth?
Sandra Oh’s net worth is estimated at $25 million.
How much did Sandra Oh make on Grey’s Anatomy?
Grey’s Anatomymade Oh a household name. Playing the role of Dr. Cristina Yang during the first 10 seasons of Grey’s reportedly earned Oh earned between $8 million and $9 million per season toward the end of her tenure; for earlier seasons, she is estimated to have made about one-third of that amount. While it all certainly adds up to a sweet chunk of change, Oh’s Grey’s paycheck paled in comparison to that of costar Ellen Pompeo, who made headlines in 2018 when she negotiated a $20 million yearly salary. Oh told Vanity Fair of Pompeo’s payday, “I totally understand and remember that struggle for her. It’s really good that she feels full circle about that. That she feels righted now.” As for her own, she was cagey, saying, “I don’t see it the same way, in my experience … it’s complicated. It’s too complicated, you know what I mean? The best answer for that is Rashomon.” (Rashomon is a film by Akira Kurosawain which four different characters give four different accounts of what happened in a murder, with the truth deliberately left ambiguous and subjective.) Oh also told The Hollywood Reporter in 2013 about her exit from the series and the end of her run as Yang, “Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go. It’s such an interesting thing to play a character for so long and to actually get the sense that she wants to be let go as well. [Cristina] wants to be let go, and I am ready to let her go.”
How much did Sandra Oh make per episode on Grey’s Anatomy?
Oh’s salary for earlier seasons of Grey’s Anatomyhasn’t been reported, but according to TV Guide, she was making about $350,000 per episode circa 2012, about two years before she left the show.
How much does Sandra Oh make on Killing Eve?
In June 2019, UK’s The Daily Mail reported that Oh was paid £600,000 for the first season of Killing Eve—which would translate to about $827,000 in U.S. dollars—and that “for [seasons] 2 and 3 of Eve she’ll earn £1.6 million.” It’s unclear if that second sum was per season or a two-season total, but in U.S. currency, £1.6 million equals about $2.2 million. In comparison, the outlet claimed that costar Jodie Comer earned £350,000 (about $482,000) for all Season 1, but got a pay bump for Seasons 2 and 3 up to £100,000 per episode (about $138,000). Oh has admitted that when she first read for the part of Eve, she had no idea she’d even been considered for the lead role alongside Comer as Villanelle. “I was talking to my agent and as I scrolled on my phone, doing a really quick pass at the script, I’m just going, ‘Who am I? Who am I playing?’ This was a real moment for my own internalization,” she recalled to Variety. “And my agent goes, ‘Honey, it’s Eve’—and then I was just like, ‘Ohhhh!’ I appreciated that they thought of that before I thought of it. It really, really stuck with me.” She explained, “The character is not Asian, but there are a billion examples of the reverse where the source material or the character in the book was one ethnicity or another and no one blinks an eye when people change it to being a white actor. I really hope that there is more pressure and sensitivity and understanding around it.”
How much does Sandra Oh make per episode of Killing Eve?
Again, figures are all over the map. It was reported in November 2018 (after Killing Eve’s first season, but before its second) that Oh raked in $100,000 per episode on Killing Eve. Since each season of Killing Eve so far has contained eight episodes, that would add up to $800,000, which is about how much The Daily Mail claimed Oh earned for Season 1 as well. However, it’s also been reported that Oh makes the same $350,000 per episode on Eve as she made back on Grey’s. Multiply that by eight episodes per season and you get $2.8 million, slightly higher than the $2.2 million figure that was reported by The Daily Mail.
How much did Sandra Oh make in her divorce?
Oh married Sideways writer-director Alexander Paynein January 2003, about 18 months before Sideways was released. They’d separated by March 2005 and filed for divorce a month later. Oh requested spousal support from Payne (whose current net worth is also estimated at $25 million), ut Payne filed paperwork asking that her request be denied. Their divorce wasn’t finalized until 2007, and financial details weren’t disclosed. However, by then, Oh had become a household name on Grey’s Anatomy, so her financial situation was likely much different than it was when the couple first called it quits.
How much did Sandra Oh make hosting the Golden Globes?
Oh’s payday for hosting the Golden Globes in 2019 hasn’t been reported, but considering Jimmy Kimmelmade the union minimum of $15,000 in 2020, we can assume her fee was around the same. Apart from making money hosting the Golden Globes, Oh also made history. She was the first person of Asian descent to ever host the Golden Globes, as well as the first to win multiple Golden Globes (in 2006 for Grey’s Anatomyand 2019 for Killing Eve), plus the first to win the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama.
How much does Sandra Oh make doing voice work?
Oh has also done voiceover work throughout her career, with credits including Invincible, American Dad!, Phineas and Ferb, Proud Family, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Raya and the Last Dragon and more. According to The Daily Mail,Oh’s voice work on the first season of Invincible alone earned her just over a cool $1 million. Plus, the show has been renewed for two more seasons.
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