Chandra Wilson

At 55 years old, Chandra Wilson has this physical status:

Chandra Danette Wilson (born August 27, 1969) is an American actor and producer best known for her role as Dr.

Miranda Bailey has appeared in Grey's Anatomy since 2005, for which she has been nominated for the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress four times.

Bailey appeared on Private Practice and Station 19 as a female protagonist.

She made her New York stage debut in 1991 and gained television appearances on a variety of prime-time television shows.

In the 1993 film Philadelphia, she made her first film appearance.

Early life

Wilson was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Her mother, a postal worker, wanted to keep her daughter healthy, so she enrolled Chandra in a variety of after-school activities. "My mother decided that she did not want to have an idle child in the house at four years old," Wilson recalls. "So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I found myself in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. "And that was my childhood" In an interview with Broadway.com, she said, "My first show was The King and I when I was five."

Wilson had been performing in musicals with the Theatre Under the Stars Company in Houston by the age of five. She attended High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston and continued on to Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, earning a BFA in drama in 1991. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute from 1991–95, while still earning professional theater credits. She made her New York debut in 1991's production The Good Times Are Killing Me and received a Theater World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance. Paper Moon: The Musical and Little Shop of Horrors are two of her early stage credits.

Wilson also began to land guest spots on a number of prime-time television shows while making a name for herself on the New York stage. She appeared on The Cosby Show (1989), Law & Order (1992), and CBS Schoolbreak Special (1992). In the critically acclaimed 1993 film Philadelphia, she made her big-screen debut alongside Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Wilson, despite receiving high praise for almost all of her appearances, has struggled for many years to gain greater attention. Wilson spent eight years as an outsider at Deutsche Bank, where she attempted to break into major fame, she worked part-time as a teller in order to make ends meet.

Wilson landed her breakthrough role as Dr. Miranda Bailey on ABC's Grey's Anatomy in 2005.

Personal life

Wilson wrote in Parade May 2007: "I'm in a relationship, but not married." As of 2019, she has been with her partner for 31 years. Wilson and her partner have three children; their daughter Sarina was born in 1992; daughter Joylin was born in 1998; and son Michael was born on October 31, 2005.

Wilson is an advocate for the cause of cyclic vomiting syndrome and serves as the spokesperson for the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association, as well as the celebrity ambassador for CureMito. Sarina, Sarina's teen daughter, was diagnosed with the disease in 2010. Wilson, a producer of Grey's Anatomy Wilson, talked with the designers and pitched the possibility of including cyclic vomiting syndrome in a forthcoming episode. Wilson produced the episode "Second Opinion" on November 15, 2012, and Wilson directed it.

She is also a champion for people with mental and/or opioid use disorders. She produced the 10th Annual Voice Awards event for the Substance Abuse and Mental Services Administration in 2015.

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Career

Wilson's first regular television television appearance was in the short-lived series Bob Patterson (2001), a post-Seinfeld vehicle for Jason Alexander. Wilson was "the only one in the show you can imagine seeing again" in a USA Today article, according to Robert Bianco. "The only character here that's amusingly written is Bob's new assistant, Claudia (Chandra Wilson)," the Los Angeles Times wrote. She appeared on Third Watch (2001), Law & Order SVU, Sex and the City (2002), and The Sopranos (2004), as well as a small part in Lone Star (1996).

Wilson spent time in theater, where she appeared in The Good Times Are Killing Me, and she was also a part of the Tony-nominated musical Caroline, or Change. Wilson has performed in a number of productions, including On the Town (1998), Avenue Q (2003), and Caroline, as Change (2004).

Wilson served as a temp at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, where she made presentations for the investment banking units. She was employed at the Bankers Trust location on 130 Liberty Street, right across the street from the World Trade Center's South Tower from 9/11, when the building was destroyed to the terrorist attacks. Wilson was still working at a bank when she applied for the Grey's Anatomy pilot. Miranda Bailey was originally intended as a blonde-haired white woman in a role that had been imagined as a blonde-haired white woman. The display was a hit. Wilson was nominated in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama. She was nominated and received the Screen Actor in a Drama Series in 2007; as part of the Grey's Anatomy cast, which also received Best Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Wilson made her television directing debut with the episode "Give Peace a Chance," the 7th episode in Grey's Anatomy's season 6. She also produced episode 17, "Push," the same season's fifth episode of season 7, and "Moment of Truth," the 6th episode of season nine, and "Transplant Wasteland" the 17th episode of the ninth season. Dr. Bailey, the hospital interns' supervisor, had been written for a petite, blonde white woman, but Wilson, a fully figured African-American woman, gave the show's producers such a thrilling audition. "I knew the casting director," she later joked. Wilson received rave reviews for her role as Dr. Bailey, the tough-ass Dr. Bailey. Wilson was nominated for four consecutive Emmy Awards (2006-2009) and received four consecutive NAACP Image Awards (2007-2010) for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She also received the 2008 People's Choice Award for Favorite Scene-Stealing Star. Wilson, who was still playing on Grey's Anatomy, went on a brief hiatus from the show to Broadway as Mama Morton in a revival of Chicago in 2009.

Wilson said that the only difference between her acting career and her acting career a decade ago is that people actually recognize her on the street. "The only difference in my job now is the visibility I have," she said. "I made it now, but I think I made it do summer stock." She is also upbeat about the bribility of her new-found fame and fortune. Wilson was careful not to burn any bridges after leaving her bank to concentrate solely on her role in Grey's Anatomy. "They told me I could come back if acting doesn't work out," she said. "Keep my seat warm," I told them.

Wilson made a guest appearance on ABC Daytime's Capital Hospital in 2014 as patient Tina Estrada. Dr. Linda Massey appeared on GM in 2018 as Dr. Linda Massey. Wilson will make his third guest star appearance on General Hospital in April 2019, this time as Sydney Val Jean in May 2019.

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