Ellen pompeo

Born in Everett, a town near Boston, on November 10, 1969, Ellen Pompeo is the youngest of six siblings, all much older than her. Her mother died when she was four years old, and her family moved to New York, where Ellen spent much of her childhood. She was not good at studies. “I adore books, but I usually read them in my free time. When I have to read them before exams, under pressure, I get very nervous, ”she explains. She ended up working as a waitress in a shabby cafe, where she would notice her beauty for a clever modeling agent who immediately realized that this spectacular girl would triumph in the spotlight. In a few days, the girl had stopped waiting tables, as she chained filming for cosmetic advertisements and bank offices. 

It didn’t take long for his friends and family to advise him to launch into acting, so he began to go through a couple of tests for soap operas, with a humble attitude, style “the important thing is to participate”, until he she realized that she aroused passions among television executives, as soon as they realized that the camera adored her. She was immediately given supporting roles in renowned series like Law & Order and Friends . And she chose to move to Los Angeles, encouraged by her acquaintances and her relatives, to try her luck in the cinema.

As soon as she arrived, she happened to meet one of her favorite actors, Jake Gyllenhaal , who did not hesitate to praise her beauty without losing his chivalry. “I thanked him very much. I told him that I was looking forward to working with him sometime,” she recalls. Gyllenhaal proposed that they give him a test. Three weeks later, the two were shooting together The Engagement , by Brad Silberling , where two heavyweights, Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon , were also present., two parents who had lost their daughter, and tried to maintain ties with Joe, who was going to be their future son-in-law. Ellen Pompeo became Bertie Knox, a new love in Joe’s life. “He was a very nice character, because Bertie tells everything to a stranger. She goes so far as to tell him things that she hasn’t told anyone before, simply because she thinks there are no consequences to telling him. A very deep relationship ends up emerging between the two”, recalls the actress. Many critics highlighted the talent of that unknown. Her next job was given to her by none other than Steven Spielberg , who entrusted her with the role of one of the women deceived by Leonardo DiCaprio , in Catch Me If You Can .

In Mark Steven Johnson ‘s Daredevil , he was told that his character was going to matter a lot. She was Karen Page, the protagonist’s secretary, but the director preferred to leave most of her scenes on the editing table. They gave her more room in Those University Revelries , where she was the woman for whom Luke Wilson sighed , a thirty-year-old who was returning to the university. Unfortunately, she was a low-key comedian who probably hurt his career. In fact, right after, she was given uninteresting papers that she refused. She later agreed to come to Spain to shoot Golpe maestr o, a Spanish-American co-production shot in Barcelona, ​​Begues and Sabadell.

Discouraged by the poor results, and because her film career seemed stagnant, the idea of ​​returning to the small screen began to make sense. She couldn’t have come back at a better time, in the middle of the golden era of soap operas. She was immediately chosen to play Mederith Grey, the resident physician in Grey’s Anatomy , a tragicomedy about new hospital interns and her supervisors. “I was pretty discouraged with my last works. It was really lucky to come across this project, because I think the role was written for me”, explains the promising interpreter.