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For Sandra Oh, A Star Turn Tracking A Stylish Assassin On 'Killing Eve'

On the new female-driven TV series, the American actress (Sideways, Grey's Anatomy) has landed a darkly comic lead role that she says was 30 years in the making.
In <em>Killing Eve</em>, Sandra Oh plays the titular Eve, a desk-bound security services operative <em></em>who picks up the trail of a glamorous assassin.

We know more than we ever did before about how hard it can be for women trying to make it in Hollywood.

But Sandra Oh says she was prepared for anything the industry threw her way — sort of by accident. She had to face her toughest critics long ago — her parents — who absolutely did not want her to become an actor.

"It was very, very, very difficult to rebel against them coming from a

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