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Chandra Wilson
Born	August 27, 1969 (1969-08-27) (age 39) Houston, Texas
Awards won Screen Actors Guild Awards Best Actress - Drama Series 2006 Grey's Anatomy Best Ensemble - Drama Series 2006 Grey's Anatomy

Chandra Wilson (born August 27, 1969) is a two-time SAG Award-winning American actress, best known for her role as Dr. Miranda Bailey on the ABC television drama, Grey's Anatomy.

Biography

Early life

Wilson was born in Houston, Texas. She started her theater career at the age of five with the Houston-based Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS). Wilson attended Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and went on to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she earned a BFA in drama.

Career

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Wilson's first regular network TV role was in the short-lived series Bob Patterson (2001), a post-"Seinfeld" vehicle for Jason Alexander. She also appeared on Law & Order, Sex and the City, and The Sopranos, and had a small role in Lone Star (1996). Wilson also had career in theater, where she played Bonna Willis in The Good Times Are Killing Me, and was featured in the Tony-nominated Caroline, or Change. Wilson is an accomplished singer, and has sung in several productions.

Wilson was working at a bank when she auditioned for the Grey's Anatomy pilot. The strength of her audition got her cast as Miranda Bailey, a role initially envisioned as a blond Caucasian woman.¹ The show became a breakout hit, and the character of Bailey - referred to as "the Nazi" - is an audience favorite. Wilson was nominated in 2006 and 2007 for an Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a drama. She was nominated and won the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2007 for outstanding female actor in a drama series; she also won a SAG Award as part of the Grey's Anatomy cast, which won Best Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Personal life

Wilson and her husband have three children; daughters Serena and Joy were born in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and son Michael was born on October 31, 2005.²

Credits

Stage credits

• The Good Times are Killing Me
• The Miracle Worker
• Paper Moon: the Musical
• The Family of Mann
• Believing
• Little Shop of Horrors

Broadway

• Caroline, or Change (2004)
• Avenue Q (2003)
• On The Town (1998)

Television

Contract roles

• Grey's Anatomy (2005-)
• Bob Patterson (2001)
• I Love the 80's 3-D (2005)

Guest appearance

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2005) Episode "911".....Rachel Sorannis
• The Sopranos (2004)
• Queens Supreme
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2002) Episode "Waste".....Nurse Jenkins
• Sex and the City (2002) Plays a police officer in season 5 episode, "Anchors Away."
• 100 Centre Street (2001)
• Third Watch (2001)
• Cosby (2000)
• Eddie Mcguire (1996)
• Law & Order (1992)
• The Cosby Show (1989)

Television movie

• Sexual Considerations (1991)

Film

• Accidental Friendship (2008)
• A Single Woman (2008)
• Strangers with Candy (2005)
• Head of State (2003)
• Lone Star (1996)
• Philadelphia (1993)
• Mad Dog and Glory (1993)
• Peer Pressure, Drugs and... You (1990)

Awards and nominations

• BET Awards
  • 2008, Best Actress: Grey's Anatomy (nominated)
  • 2007, Best Actress: Grey's Anatomy (nominated)
• Emmy Awards
  • 2008, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (nominated)
  • 2007, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (nominated)
  • 2006, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (nominated)
• Image Awards
  • 2008, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (Winner)
  • 2007, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (Winner)
  • 2006, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (nominated)
• People's Choice Awards
  • 2008, Favorite Scene Stealing Star: Grey's Anatomy (Winner)
• Satellite Awards
  • 2008, Best Supporting Actress in a Television Vision/Mini-Series: Grey's Anatomy (nominated)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards
  • 2008, Outstanding Cast in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (Nominated)
  • 2007, Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (Winner)
  • 2007, Outstanding Cast in a Drama Series: Grey's Anatomy (Winner)

References

1. ^ MacMedan, Dan (2006-03-01). "At TV fest, 'Grey's Anatomy' cast has as much fun as characters". USA Today. Retrieved on 2007-01-28.
2. ^ Freydkin, Donna (2006-09-20). "Grey's ladies". USA Today. Retrieved on 2007-01-28.

External links

• Chandra Wilson at the Internet Movie Database
• ABC biography
• Chandra Wilson at TV.com
• Chandra Wilson at the Internet Broadway Database