Ellen Pompeo

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Biography

Ellen Pompeo made her major studio screen debut in Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile, starring alongside Susan Sarandon, Dustin Hoffman and Jake Gyllenhaal. She received…more

Born

11/10/1969, Everett, Massachusetts

Birth Name

Ellen Kathleen Pompeo

Gender

Female
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    • In terms of her very thin frame, Ellen has described herself as a "natural waif." She does have a trainer three days a week to work on building muscle and endurance, and she eats very carefully during the week. However, she claims that she "pigs out" on the weekends, and her favorite splurges include pizza, lasagna, salami, and red wine.
    • When Ellen was a waitress, she would make sure the cigarette machine wouldn't work so that customers had to buy them from her. As the night got longer, and the customers got drunker, Ellen would charge them more and more.
    • Ellen and Brooke Smith (Dr. Hahn, Grey's Anatomy) starred in an episode of Law & Order together in 1996. Ellen played the teenage daughter of Smith's characters client.
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    • Ellen Pompeo: When I'm doing a big crying scene, I go to a really dark place inside me. I almost torture myself by drawing on the emotions of my past.
    • Ellen Pompeo: (about filming "Grey's Anatomy") It's gross. We use real brains. I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.
    • Ellen Pompeo: (about fame) The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute.
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