Chandra Wilson

Chandra Wilson is an American actress and director, born in 1969 and raised in Houston, Texas. She trained at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and made her New York stage debut in 1991, winning a Theater World Award for it. Her first film appearance was in Philadelphia in 1993, and for many years she worked on stage and in guest television roles while temping at a bank. Her breakthrough came in 2005, when she was cast as Dr. Miranda Bailey in the ABC series Grey's Anatomy, a role she later carried into Private Practice and Station 19 and for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award. She made her television directing debut on Grey's Anatomy and has directed several of its episodes. Outside acting she is an advocate for cyclic vomiting syndrome awareness and for people with mental and substance use disorders.