Ellen Kathleen Pompeo is one of the highest paid actresses in American television, a charming blonde known to the Russian audience for her role as Meredith Gray in the popular series Anatomy of Passion.
Biography
Ellen was born into a Catholic family rooted in 1969 on November 10 in Everett. She became the youngest, sixth child in the Pompeo family, and she had asthma. At 4, the future actress experienced a real shock, like everyone else close - her mother Kathleen died of an overdose of pills. Father, a merchant Joseph, was left alone with the children, but soon found a new wife, who became his caring mother.
Ellen was brought up in strict Catholic traditions; church attendance was a must. After graduating from high school, in the early nineties, Ellen got a job as a bartender in a small diner in New York. There, a pretty girl was noticed by an agent and offered to work on television in advertising. Pompeo agreed, and this experience in commercials was very useful for her future career.
Career
In 1996, thanks to the same agent, Pompeo got a small role in the popular television series Law and Order. In 96, the girl starred in a pair of short films and a little-known telenovela, and in 2001, the actress moved to Los Angeles, determined to connect her life with television.
The first serious work of Pompeo Ellen was the painting Moonlight Mile, after which her talent was noticed, and in the same 2002, the actress begins to work with the famous Stephen Spielberg.
In 2005, the peak of Pompeo's acting career begins - she is invited to the cast of the new series on medicine "Anatomy of Passion" for the role of one of the main characters. This series is a resounding success worldwide, and, of course, the actress is becoming popular.
Her work in Anatomy has received many prestigious awards and continues to this day. In total, Pompeo has about 20 works, but today she does not deal with any other projects except the only one that made her the star of Gray's Anatomy.
