Chandra Wilson is best known for her multi award-winning role of Dr. Miranda Bailey on the hit ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy, now in its 20th Season as the longest running medical drama on network prime time television. She has received the Screen Actors Guild Award, People’s Choice Award, Prism Award, four NAACP Image Awards and four Emmy Award nominations for her work on the show. And having directed 20 episodes thus far, she has received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Director in a Series Drama, and a Women’s Image Network award for Drama Series Directed by a Woman. She has also directed Scandal, Good Trouble, and 3 episodes of The Fosters.
She has been featured in Heart and Soul, Ebony, Parade, Venice, Working Mother, MediaPlanet and Essence magazines, and honored in an Entertainment Weekly year end issue with one of the year’s “Great Performances, Memorable Moments from 2005”. TV Guide called her a “Scene Stealer” in the August 2005 issue. In the Spring of 2004, she was selected by The New York Times as one of “8 to Watch, Onstage and Behind the Scenes”.