1. Chandra Danette Wilson was born on August 27,1969 and is an American actress and director best known for her role as Miranda Bailey in Grey's Anatomy since 2005, for which she has been nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series four times.
Chandra Wilson played the character of Bailey on Private Practice and Station 19.
Chandra Wilson made her New York stage debut in 1991 and began to land guest spots on a variety of prime-time television shows.
Chandra Wilson made her first film appearance in the 1993 film Philadelphia.
Chandra Wilson attended Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and continued on to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in drama in 1991.
Chandra Wilson made her New York debut in a 1991 production of The Good Times Are Killing Me and won a Theater World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance.
Chandra Wilson made her big-screen debut alongside Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington in the highly acclaimed 1993 film Philadelphia.
For eight years, while she tried to break into major stardom, Chandra Wilson worked part-time as a teller at Deutsche Bank in order to make ends meet.
In 2005, Chandra Wilson landed her breakthrough role as Dr Miranda Bailey on the hit ABC show Grey's Anatomy.
Chandra Wilson had career in theater, where she played Bonna Willis in The Good Times Are Killing Me, and was featured in the Tony-nominated musical Caroline, or Change.
Chandra Wilson is an accomplished singer and has sung in several productions, including On the Town, Avenue Q and Caroline, or Change.
Chandra Wilson was still working at a bank when she auditioned for the Grey's Anatomy pilot.
Chandra Wilson was cast as Miranda Bailey, a role initially envisioned as a blonde-haired white woman.
Chandra Wilson was nominated in 2006,2007,2008 and 2009 for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama.
Chandra Wilson was nominated and won the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2007 for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series; she won a SAG Award as part of the Grey's Anatomy cast, which won Best Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Chandra Wilson made her television directing debut with the episode "Give Peace a Chance", the 7th episode in season 6 of Grey's Anatomy.
The part of Dr Bailey, supervisor to the hospital interns, had been written for a petite, blonde-haired white woman, but Chandra Wilson, a full-figured African-American woman, gave such an impressive audition that the show's producers decided to give her the part.
Chandra Wilson was nominated for four consecutive Emmy Awards and won four consecutive NAACP Image Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Chandra Wilson won the 2008 People's Choice Award for Favorite Scene-Stealing Star.
In 2009, while still starring on Grey's Anatomy, Chandra Wilson took a brief hiatus from the show to go to Broadway as Mama Morton in a revival of Chicago.
Chandra Wilson explained the only difference between her acting career now and her acting career a decade ago is that people actually recognize her on the street.
In 2014, Chandra Wilson made a guest starring appearance on the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital as patient Tina Estrada.
Chandra Wilson and her partner have 3 children; their daughter Serena was born in 1992, daughter Joylin was born in 1998, and son Michael was born on October 31,2005.