| Aside from her starring role on Grey's Anatomy, we like
to remember Ellen Pompeo as the only non-beer-chugging character on the wildly
successful Old School—where she held her own on the big screen alongside
comedy heavyweights McHottie Luke Wilson, McDashing Vince Vaughn and McWitty Will
Ferrell. Her ever-so-popular portrayal of Meredith Grey earned Pompeo a
Golden Globe nomination in 2007 and countless—perhaps fanatical—fans.
Along with her fellow Grey's Anatomy cast members, she also received the 2007
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Television
Drama. A Boston native, Pompeo made her major studio film debut in Brad
Silberling's Moonlight Mile, alongside the McScrumptious Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin
Hoffman and Susan Sarandon. She went on to star in the wildly successful Old School
as wall as in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, opposite the McSexy Leonardo
DiCaprio. Prior to Moonlight Mile, Pompeo had starred in several independent
features, including In the Weeds and Coming Soon. - description by ABC.com | 
