Cristina Yang is a fictional surgeon on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by actress Sandra Oh, who won a Golden Globe and a SAG Award in 2006 for the role. Sandra Oh has since been nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Emmy Awards.
Cristina Yang is a doctor of Korean descent and a native of Beverly Hills, California. Raised Jewish (her mother conve...
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Cristina Yang is a fictional surgeon on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by actress Sandra Oh, who won a Golden Globe and a SAG Award in 2006 for the role. Sandra Oh has since been nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series at the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Emmy Awards.
Cristina Yang is a doctor of Korean descent and a native of Beverly Hills, California. Raised Jewish (her mother converted upon re-marriage to oral surgeon Saul Rubenstein), she has at times referred to herself as Jewish, although she believes only in science and is a strong atheist, implying that she is likely a Humanistic Jew. Her biological father died when she was nine years old in a car accident, where she watched him bleed out before help arrived. She has a B.A. from Smith College, a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine, graduating first in her class. She is fluent in...
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