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Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey on "Grey's Anatomy"
Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey on "Grey's Anatomy" - © ABC
Chandra Wilson stars as Miranda Bailey on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy."

The New York Times named Chandra Wilson one of "Eight to Watch, Onstage and Behind the Scenes (Spring 2004)" for her role in the George C. Wolfe-directed Broadway play, "Caroline, or Change."

The Houston, Texas native began her career performing at the age of five with Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS), where she appeared in more than ten of their major musical productions. Chandra Wilson attended Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and later went on to acquire her BFA in undergraduate Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. There, she spent four years training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Chandra Wilson was a series regular on the ABC series "Bob Patterson." Her numerous television credits include guest starring roles on "The Sopranos," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Sex and the City," "Third Watch," "100 Centre Street" "Cosby" and "The Cosby Show." Chandra Wilson has had recurring roles on "One Life to Live" and "Queens Supreme," and a principle role in the CBS Schoolbreak Special, "Sexual Considerations." She has also appeared in national commercials for Blockbuster Video, Burger King, Scope and the United Negro College Fund, as well as numerous radio commercials.

On the big screen, Chandra Wilson had supporting roles in "Lone Star," directed by John Sayles, and "Philadelphia," directed by Jonathan Demme.

Chandra Wilson's greatest New York stage accomplishment was portraying Bonna Willis in the production of "The Good Times are Killing Me," both at the Second Stage and Minetta Lane Theatres, for which she won a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance. Some of her other stage credits include "The Miracle Worker" at Charlotte Repertory Theatre, "Paper Moon: the Musical" at the Papermill Playhouse, "The Family of Mann" by Theresa Rebeck at the Second Stage Theatre, "Believing," for the Young Playwright's Festival at Playwrights Horizons, "Little Shop of Horrors" at the Falmouth Playhouse, and the Broadway revival of "On the Town," directed by George C. Wolfe.






CHANDRA WILSON: FACTS

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Age: 40 years old
Birthday: August 27, 1969
Height: 5' 0"
Full Name / Real Name: Chandra Danette Wilson
Birthplace: Houston, TX



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