After high school graduation Pompeo worked in Miami and New York City as a bartender before booking commercials and independent films. She won her first television role on Law & Order in 1996.

The youngest of six siblings raised in a “very blue-collar, working-class Boston neighborhood,” Ellen Pompeo was 4 when her mom, Kathleen, died from an accidental painkiller overdose. As a kid ...

Ellen Pompeo Says She Went Through an 'Emo' Phase in High School: 'Didn't Go to the Prom or Do Any of That' (Exclusive) The 'Grey's Anatomy' star is playing adoptive mother Kristine Barnett in the ...

The 'Grey's Anatomy' star is playing adoptive mother Kristine Barnett in the dark new series about Natalia Grace, 'Good American Family', premiering March 19 on Hulu ...