The Hollywood Walk of Fame star was announced on Tuesday. Ellen Pompeo celebrated her starring role in Primetime TV’s longest-running medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy.
“Grey’s Anatomy” creator Chondalimus and fellow executive producer and frequent director Debbie Allen were scheduled to attend Pompeo at the 11:30am ceremony at 6533 Hollywood Boulevard near Hudson Avenue. Many cast members will be present, Hollywood Walk of Fame producer Anna Martinez told City News Service.
The ceremony will be held one day before the season finale of “Good American Family.” This is a Hulu Limited series in which Pompeo stars as part of a couple who adopts a child with dwarfism. Pompeo is one of the executive producers.
The star is the 2,809th since the completion of the Fame Walk in 1961 with its first 1,558 stars.
Born in Everett, Massachusetts on November 10, 1969, Pompeo moved from Miami to New York City in 1995 with her boyfriend. There, he approached the casting director to appear in ads for Citibank and L’Oreal. Pompeo made his television debut in 1996 with an episode of the NBC crime and legal drama Law & Order. Her other early TV credits included comedy central comedy, Stranger with Candy, and the Foxteen comedy drama “Get Real.”
Pompeo’s other “Grey’s Anatomy” credits included a 2004 episode of the lifelong medical drama “Strong Medicine,” ABC comedy, “Job,” and the long-running NBC comedy “Friend.”
Pompeo made his major studio film debut, playing the lead role in the 2002 romantic drama “Moonlight Mile,” playing the sympathetic love interest of real estate agent Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal). Her other “Grey’s Anatomy” film credits include the comedy “Old School,” and is included in Steven Spielberg’s crime comedy drama “Catch Me You You Can.”
“Grey’s Anatomy” premiered on March 27, 2005 and was recently updated by ABC for the 22nd season, which begins in the fall.
Pompeo and her castmates won the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2007 for their outstanding performances by the drama series ensemble and were nominated in 2006 and 2008.
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