Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is a Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild award-winning American actress, known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Ellen is a well known actress and has been nomitnated for many prestigeous awards but intrestingly she... Read More

Ellen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is a Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild award-winning American actress, known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy.

Ellen is a well known actress and has been nomitnated for many prestigeous awards but intrestingly she didnt start out in the acting industry. For more than two years, she served cocktails in Miami,where she met fashion photographer Andrew Rosenthal, with whom she was romantically linked for some time. In 1996, she was bartending at the SoHo Bar & Grill in New York City's Upper West Side when an agent approached her to appear in commercials. Subsequently, she appeared in commercials for Citibank and L'Oréal. She began her career with minor roles on television shows like Strangers with Candy, Friends and Law & Order and a handful of others. she then went on to auditioning for grey's anatomy which turned out to be the biggest break of her career. See Less