Ellen Pompeo
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biography
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 about appearing in commercials, and she subsequently landed her
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milestones
Year
Milestone
1995
Discovered by a casting director while bartending at the NYC Soho Kitchen
1996
Made TV acting debut on NBC's "Law & Order" in a guest-starring role
2000
Cast in the coming-of-age teen-sex comedy "Coming Soon"
2000
Played a harried waitress in the comedy "In the Weeds"
2001
Relocated to Hollywood
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