NETFLIX LANDS NEW SERIES THE CHAIR STARRING & EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY GOLDEN GLOBE WINNER SANDRA OHAND CO-STARRING EMMY AWARD WINNER JAY DUPLASSGolden Globe Award winning actress Sandra Oh to star and executive produce new dramaedy coming to NetflixOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY Netflix, Inc. FROM WRITER/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AMANDA PEET Netflix today announced, The Chair, a new six episode half hour dramedy centered around the Chair of an English department at a major university. Star/Executive Producer: Sandra Oh (Killing Eve, Grey’s Anatomy) Star: Jay Duplass (Transparent, Outside In) Writer/Showrunner/Executive Producer: Amanda Peet (The Commons of Pensacola for the Manhattan Theatre Club, Our Very Own Carlin McCullough for The Geffen Playhouse) Executive Producers: David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Bernie Caulfield 6 episodes Annie Julia Wyman co-wrote the pilot. Amanda Peet Bio Sandra Oh Bio Sandra won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang on the hit ABC series “Grey’s Anatomy,” as well as received multiple Emmy Award nominations. Previously, Sandra starred in the enormously successful Fox Searchlight feature film “Sideways”, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. On stage, Sandra starred in “Death and the Maiden” at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago and completed a sold-out run of the World Premiere of “Satellites” at New York’s Public Theater for playwright Diana Son. She won her first Genie Award (Canada’s Oscar) for her leading role in “Double Happiness”, a bittersweet coming-of-age story about a young Chinese-Canadian woman – a performance that brought her much acclaim and secured her place as one of Canada’s rising young film stars. She also performed the “Vagina Monologues” in New York. Sandra was previously seen in the British production of “Thorne: Scaredy Cat”. Her additional feature film credits include “Meditation Park”, “Tammy”, “Defendor”, “Blindness”, “The Night Listener”, “For Your Consideration”, “Three Needles”, “Long Life Happiness and Prosperity”, “Under the Tuscan Sun”, “Sorry Haters”, “Ramona and Beezus”, “Rick”, “Bean”, “Guinevere”, “The Red Violin”, “Waking the Dead”, “The Princess Diaries”, “Pay or Play”, and Michael Radford’s improvised “Dancing at the Blue Iguana”. Her performance in “Last Night”, a Canadian film about the end of the world and won her a second Genie Award for Best Actress in 1999. Most recently, she starred in “Catfight” opposite Anne Heche, and the animated feature "Window Horses,” which she produced. Jay Duplass Bio
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February 21, 2020 5:00pm ET by Netflix, Inc. |