| As Dr. Miranda Bailey on Grey's Anatomy, she gets results
from her team. Period. In real life, Chandra Wilson just gets results… For
her Grey’s role, Chandra earned one Peoples’ Choice Award, two Screen
Actors Guild Awards and three NAACP Image Awards. She is also a five-time Emmy
nominee and a BET Award nominee. A Houston, Texas, native, Chandra began
performing in musicals at the age of five. By the time the spring of 2004 rolled
around, she was selected by The New York Times as one of "8 to Watch, Onstage
and Behind the Scenes." This honor came in conjunction with the Broadway
opening of Caroline, or Change, in which she portrayed Dotty Moffett opposite
the formidable Tonya Pinkins. Her greatest New York stage accomplishment
thus far is her portrayal of Bonna Willis in the production of The Good Times
are Killing Me, which won her a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance. She
was also in the Broadway productions of Avenue Q and On the Town. Other stage
credits include, The Miracle Worker, Paper Moon: The Musical, The Family of Mann,
Believing and Little Shop of Horrors. She returned to Broadway for a successful
run as Mama Morton in Chicago. Chandra recently starred in Accidental Friendship
for the Hallmark Channel. Other TV credits include a series regular role on ABC's
Bob Patterson, along with numerous guest appearances on The Sopranos, Law &
Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Sex and the City, Third Watch, 100
Centre Street, Cosby and The Cosby Show. She has also had recurring roles on One
Life to Live and Queens Supreme. On the big screen she's had supporting
roles in the films Lone Star, directed by John Sayles, and Philadelphia, directed
by Jonathan Demme. Next, she joins Halle Berry in the film Frankie and Alice.
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