According to her biography, Sara Ramirez was born in the city of Mazatian in Sinaloa in Mexico’s Pacific coast. For her parents, her father is Mexican and her mother is an Irish-American descent. When she was eight years, her mother moved to Tierrasanta, in the city of San Diego in the California state and this is where they decided to settle.

She attended San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts and then moved to attend Julliard School based in New York City. This is where she refined her skills of being an actress. She speaks English and Spanish well. She started at Broadway where she was playing as Wahzinak in The Capeman of Paul Simon.

In the year 1999, she was in The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm and she received a nomination of Outer Critics Circle Award. She was also in Dreamgirls and A Class Act. She performed in The Vagina Monologues together with Suzanne Bertish and Tovah Feldshuh. She was Lammy voice in a video game called UmJammer Lammy which is a spin-off of PaRappa the Rapper and they were both Playstation consoles of Sony. Afterwards, she took up again the role of Lammy in Playstation 2 Video. However, she had a small role in the game contrary to first game.

In the year 2004, Ramirez was the Lady of The Lake in Spamalot musical of John Du Prez and Eric Idle. It was based on the Monty Python and the Holy Grail of 1975. The musical opened at Broadway of 2005 and got widespread acclaim where Ramirez was singled out for the performance she had. She was able to win many awards and they included Tony Award.

Because of her success at Broadway, Sara Ramirez got a role in Grey’s Anatomy where she was in the recurring role of Dr Calliope Callie Torres for the second season of the show. For a third season, she was named a regular in the series. While on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she said that executives at ABC liked her Spamalot’s performance and they gave her a role in any movie she likes at ABC.

Sara Ramirez got married and her husband is Ryan DeBolt, who was her boyfriend for a long period. He is a business analyst of TIMEC. They got engaged while in Paris and they got married in New York. Her instagram account is @therealsararamirez. Her twitter account is @SaraRamirez. Her net worth is 5 million dollars. There is no information about her family or having any children.