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April 20, 2009 / 8:29 AM

Ellen Pompeo pregnant with first child

Actress Ellen Pompeo (L) and guest arrive for the Millenium Ball 2006 fund-raiser to benefit the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, on October 5, 2006 . (UPI Photo/ Phil McCarten)

Actress Ellen Pompeo (L) and guest arrive for the Millenium Ball 2006 fund-raiser to benefit the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, on October 5, 2006 . (UPI Photo/ Phil McCarten) | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, April 20 (UPI) -- Ellen Pompeo's publicist has confirmed the U.S. television actress is pregnant.

This will be Pompeo's first child with her music producer husband Chris Ivery, whom she married in November 2007.

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"It's great news," Pompeo's representative Jennifer Allen told People magazine of the actress' pregnancy. "They're ecstatic."

Pompeo is best known for her co-starring role on TV's "Grey's Anatomy."

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