Sandra Oh may be planning to store her Golden Globe award at their house, but her parents admit they didn’t always support their daughter’s acting ambition.

One day after the Ottawa native took home a best supporting actress trophy for her work on the ABC television series Grey’s Anatomy, mom Young-Nan said she and her husband John “weren’t very happy” about Oh’s decision to attend Montreal’s National Theatre School after high school.

“We knew it was a difficult life. There’s a very slim chance of success,” she explained.

But Oh, who started out as a ballet dancer and appeared in CJOH’s teen drama Denim Blues in 1989, was so focused on her goal they had to give in.

“There was no changing her mind,” said Young-Nan. “So we fully supported her.”

Yesterday’s win was particularly sweet for Oh, whose parents moved to Canada from Korea in 1967. Before and even after attention-getting turns in 2003’s Under The Tuscan Sun and 2004’s Sideways, it was difficult for Oh to get auditions as a minority female in Hollywood.

Yesterday her father cited her 1993 portrayal of a prostitute-turned-writer in CBC’s The Diary of Evelyn Lau as proof of his daughter’s talent.

“If anyone gives her a tough role, she will deliver it,” he said.

Though John Oh thought Grey’s Anatomy too new for his daughter to take home the Emmy last year, when he spoke to her hours before the Golden Globes, “I was saying, ‘You better prepare a speech.’ ”

Oh, who had trouble making her way to the stage through the maze of chairs and tables, ended up giving one of the most exuberant acceptance speeches of the night. Her parents were just as excited in their Nepean home.

“First we were jumping up and down ... Right after that she phoned us first and let us know,” Young-Nan said, joking, “as if I didn’t watch. (She said) ‘Mom, I won, I won.’ ”

Pal’s name mentioned

Older sister Grace, a 38-year-old Crown attorney in Vancouver, was Oh’s date for the evening. Her younger brother Ray, 29, is earning his PhD in genetics at the University of Toronto.

Out in Calgary, the awards hadn’t even been broadcast yet when Margo Purcell got word the best friend she’s known since Grade 1 at Knoxdale Public School had not only won, but said her name on air.

That thank-you earned Purcell a mention on the ABC talk show The View yesterday. When comic Mario Cantone appeared to do a Globes debrief, he joked, “Who’s Margo, and what’s everything?”

Purcell, who attended the Emmys with Oh, said her pal “sounded over the moon” when they spoke via cellphone post-show.

After her win, Oh told reporters her statuette was going in her parents’ home. And she joked her father, a retired federal government economist and entrepreneur, has taken to reading celebrity tabloids like Star Magazine.

Oh’s parents have actually been collecting her clippings for 13 years now, amassing four thick scrapbooks along the way. “I go to the bookstore, I stand there for 20 to 30 minutes reading,” laughed John Oh yesterday. “If there’s something with Sandra in it, I buy it.”

— With files from Sun wire services