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Janet van de Graaf (born April 5, 1965) is a Canadian improv artist and television actress.
She has worked with Toronto's The Second City and has played various roles in the TV series History Bites on Canada's History Channel. [1]
She was married to actor Bob Martin from 1998 to 2018. Their namesakes are used as characters in the musical The Drowsy Chaperone , which was originally created for their stag party.
She has won three Canadian Comedy Awards, for Best Female Improviser (2002 & 2004) and Best Female TV Performance (for History Bites in 2002). [2]
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Sandra Miju Oh is a Canadian and American actress. She is known for her starring roles as Rita Wu in the HBO comedy series Arliss (1996–2002), Dr. Cristina Yang in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2005–2014), and Eve Polastri in the BBC America spy thriller series Killing Eve (2018–2022). She has received two Golden Globe Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2019, Time magazine named Oh one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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