Name: Ellen Kathleen Pompeo
Date of Birth: November 10, 1969
Spouse: Christopher Ivery (2007-present)
Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue

• Ellen auditioned for a television pilot called “Secret Service”. That show was not picked up by any television network.
• She is the youngest of 6 – she has 5 siblings who are all at least 8 years older than her.
• After she and now husband Chris Ivery started dating three years ago, they learned that they both grew up in Boston, 10 miles from each other.
• When Ellen was a waitress, she would make sure the cigarette machine wouldn’t work so that customers had to buy them from her.
• 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.
• Ellen’s first word as a baby was pepperoni.
• Ellen did the voice over for a commercial for Propel Fitness Water.
• Ellen played a supporting role in the 1995 New York Film Academy silent short film Do You Have the Time? by director Pete Sprankle.
• Ellen did the voice over for a PeoplePC commercial
• Ellen wanted to be an archaeologist when she was young.
• Although Ellen has a long list of TV credits, she doesn’t watch much television.
• Ellen admits that she learns a lot from all the medical terminology she has to learn on Grey’s Anatomy.
• Ellen lived right next door to Patrick Dempsey