Killing Eve: Sandra Oh makes history as first Asian actor to win two Golden Globes
- Sandra Oh won her first Globe in 2006 for ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
- In BBC America’s ‘Killing Eve’ she plays a British operative who becomes obsessed with an international assassin
Sunday night sure turned out golden for Sandra Oh.
The evening was already a glittering occasion for the actress, who was serving as co-host of the Golden Globes with Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg.
Then she took her hostess with the mostess level up a notch by scoring a trophy for her performance as Eve Polastri, an indefatigable and quirky British intelligence agent, in BBC America’s Killing Eve.
And it was a win with several distinctions.
It marks the second Golden Globe for the actress, who previously took home gold in 2006 for supporting actress in a series for her performance as Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy – making Oh, who is Korean-Canadian, the first Asian actor to win multiple Golden Globes.
Sunday’s achievement also gives Oh the distinction of being the second woman of Asian descent to ever win for a leading TV role; she joins Yoko Shimada, who won the category nearly four decades ago, in 1981, for NBC’s Shogun.