Boston | Ellen Pompeo | Massachusetts | OF EVERETT

HERE ARE SIX THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ACTRESS ELLEN POMPEO.  ONE: SHE WAS BORN IN THE BOSTON SUBURB OF EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS. TWO: THE BOSTON FATES ARE SMILING ON HER. HER FIANCE´, MUSIC PRODUCER CHRISTOPHER IVERY, GREW UP JUST 10 MILES FROM HER CHILDHOOD HOME AND KNEW HER FATHER. (ALTHOUGH WHEN THE COUPLE FIRST MET, IN LOS ANGELES, THEY DIDN'T KNOW OF THE CONNECTION.) THREE:  PERHAPS TO RECIPROCATE THE FATES' FAVOR, POMPEO RETURNS TO BOSTON ONCE A YEAR. "MY SORT OF CEREMONIAL TRIP," SHE CALLS IT. FOUR:  HER SISTER, MAUREEN POMPEO, STILL LIVES IN THE BOSTON AREA AND IS ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS, A CHARITY THAT PROVIDES ADOPTION SERVICES AS WELL AS SHELTER FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS ESCAPING ABUSE. FIVE: YOU CAN SEE HER ON THE BIG SCREEN IN THE UPCOMING MOONLIGHT MILE, WHICH WAS PARTLY FILMED IN MASSACHUSETTS, AND SHE HAS RECEIVED A GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION FOR HER ROLE AS MEREDITH GREY ON GREY'S ANATOMY. SIX: IF YOU WERE TO ASK HER, POMPEO WOULD TELL YOU THAT SHE STILL LOVES THE CITY OF HER BIRTH, ESPECIALLY ITS HISTORY AND ITS ABUNDANT GREEN SPACES. IN FACT, SHE'D PROBABLY TELL YOU THE FOLLOWING 13 THINGS ABOUT BOSTON.

ONE:  BLESSED ARE THE CHEESE MAKERS.  I grew up in Everett. It could be considered like Brooklyn. It's just a suburb of Boston, Five minutes over the bridge. When I  grew up there, it was a very blue-collar, working-class Irish-Italian neighborhood. There is a great market there called Regina, where you can get great salami and cheese and great imported Italian things.