In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

Oh is most familiar to American audiences from her roles in the films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways. Against her parents' advice Sandra Oh rejected a four-year journalism scholarship to Carleton University to study drama at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal paying her own way. In 2009 Oh performed in The People Speak a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters diaries and speeches of everyday Americans based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

Other films Sandra Oh has appeared in include The Night Listener Blindness and Rabbit Hole. Sandra Oh (born July 20 1971) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for the role of Dr.