United Kingdom, May 2 -- Sandra Oh admitted it was "harder to reach" Hollywood as an Asian actress compared to Canada.

The 54-year-old actress - born to Korean immigrants in Nepean, Ottawa - felt accepted "right away" when she first worked in her home country, in films such as 1994's Double Happiness and The Diary of Evelyn La, which led her to break into Hollywood with the 1997 movie Bean.

Sandra explained in the new issue of PEOPLE Magazine: "There is a difference in how a country and how people see who they are and who is invited.

"I was fortunate enough to start my career in Canada, where I felt accepted right away. Hollywood is a different game that took me years and luck. It was just harder to reach."

But the hard slog to make i...