30 Facts About Miranda Bailey

Miranda Bailey married Tucker Jones ten years prior to the beginning of Meredith Grey's internship.

Miranda Bailey is introduced to the interns as "The Nazi" in the first season premiere because of her tough personality and blunt attitude.

Miranda Bailey is protective of her interns, as shown when she warns Derek to stay away from Meredith.

Miranda Bailey stays beside Cristina's side as she recovers from surgery.

Miranda Bailey's son is born during a bomb scare at Seattle Grace while her husband is being treated in surgery for injuries from a car crash.

Miranda Bailey adjusts to becoming a parent and reconciling this with her desire to continue her career as a surgeon.

Christina kept Burke's secret about his disabled hand, and Miranda Bailey felt that she wasn't in control of her interns and that she was ultimately responsible for these incidents.

Disillusioned by how little she can help patients as a surgeon, Miranda Bailey pushes to open a free clinic at Seattle Grace.

Miranda Bailey loses the post of Chief Resident to Callie Torres.

In season 4, Miranda Bailey decides to back up Callie Torres in her post of Chief Resident, which the Chief observes.

Miranda Bailey says that he made a mistake in not choosing Bailey in the first place.

Miranda Bailey became drawn to Pediatric surgery after working on a number of pediatric cases and working closely with Arizona Robbins, a pediatric surgeon, who convinces her to apply for a pediatric fellowship.

Ultimately, Miranda Bailey decides to continue to pursue her career in general surgery after her husband threatens her with divorce if she accepts the fellowship offer.

Miranda Bailey accepts the position as an attending general surgeon and divorces her husband for presenting her with the ultimatum, stating she will not have the time to learn a new specialty as a single mother.

In season 6, after declining a fellowship in Pediatrics, Miranda Bailey starts as an Attending in General Surgery.

Miranda Bailey begins a relationship with an anesthesiologist from Mercy West, Ben Warren, who joined the staff after the merger between Seattle Grace and Mercy West.

Distraught by these experiences, Miranda Bailey takes time off to visit her parents with her son.

Miranda Bailey starts on a quest to cure fistulas and encounters a nurse, Eli, whom she starts dating.

Miranda Bailey is offended when Meredith violates the rules of the Alzheimer's clinical trial in order to help the Chief's wife.

Miranda Bailey resents Meredith because the Chief resigns as head of surgery due to this.

Miranda Bailey blamed Dr Webber the most for abandoning her and avoids him altogether.

Miranda Bailey is not impressed by this decision and starts exhibiting some odd behaviors, later she is diagnosed with OCD after what happened with the CDC investigation.

In season 12, Miranda Bailey is promoted to Chief of Surgery.

Miranda Bailey gets very upset when Ben shows interest as a firefighter, after the finale of season 13 when Dr Edwards sets fire in Grey Sloan Memorial to defend herself from the rapist.

Later that season, Miranda Bailey gets hospitalized due to a heart attack.

In Season 15, Miranda Bailey takes a stress sabbatical and has Alex Karev become interim chief of surgery.

In Season 17, as Grey-Sloan treats patients for COVID-19, Miranda Bailey feels guilty as she has just moved her parents into a local nursing home.

Miranda Bailey won a 2007 Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the show's third season.

Miranda Bailey has been nominated each year from 2006 to 2009 at the Emmy Awards for "Supporting Actress in a Drama Series", losing in 2007 to co-star Katherine Heigl in the role of Izzie Stevens for the performance in the episode "Oh, the Guilt".

Miranda Bailey has been praised for her performance in Grey's Anatomy at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, receiving three nominations along with the other cast members for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series" each year from 2006 to 2008, with the 2007 Awards marking a victory.