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Ellen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is a Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild award-winning American actress, known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama Grey s Anatomy.Pompeo was born in Everett, Massachusetts, the daughter of Kathleen and Joseph Pompeo, a salesman. Pompeo is of Irish and Italian descent and was raised Catholic. Her grandfather was born in Gesualdo, a village in Province of Avellino, Italy. Her mother passed away when she was four years old and her father remarried soon after her mother s death. She was nicknamed the pencil and Straciatella. For more than two years, she served cocktails in Miami where she met then-boyfriend, fashion photographer Andrew Rosenthal. In 1996, she was bartending at the SoHo Bar and Grill in New York City s Upper West Side when an agent approached her to appear in commercials. Subsequently, she appeared in commercials for Citibank and L Oreal. She began her career with minor roles on television shows like Strangers with Candy and Law and Order and a handful of films. On October 13, 2007, Pompeo was honored by the National Italian American Foundation for her achievement in entertainment at a black-tie gala in Washington, D.C.