Ellen Pompeo

Birthplace: Everett, Massachusetts
Birthday: November 10, 1969

An angular-featured, fair-haired beauty who emerged from ingenue to leading lady, Ellen Pompeo caught audiences’ attention in several films before hooking them with her breakout role in the popular television medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC, 2005 - ).

The actress was born in Boston, then lived for a time as a child on New York's Upper West Side. She eventually moved to Miami, where she was a cocktail waitress before heading back to New York, where in 1996 she was bartending at the SoHo Bar & Grill when an agent approached her ab…more

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Grey's Anatomy
Meredith Grey
Art Heist
Sandra
Life of the Party
Phoebe
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2005
Cast as Meredith Grey in the successful medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC); earned a Golden Globe (2007) nomination for Best Actress in a Television Drama
2003
Starrred opposite Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell in the wildly successful "Old School"
2002
Had a memorable turn as Jake Gyllenhaal's sympathetic love interest in director Brad Silberling's family drama "Moonlight Mile"
2002
Portrayed a flight attendant opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Steven Spielberg's feature "Catch Me If You Can"
2001
Relocated to Hollywood