Chandra Wilson - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography (Read)
Actors » Actors » Chandra Wilson - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
Chandra Wilson - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
Rating: 8,4/10 (280 votes)
Shandra Wilson - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, actress, director.
Born August 27, 1969 in Houston, Texas is an American actress and director.
She began her theatrical career at the age of five in local theater. She graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree. Then she entered the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, after four years of participation in which she began her career on the New York stage.
Wilson made her television debut in 1989 on an episode of the sitcom The Cosby Show. Wilson mainly worked on the stage, and in 1991 she won the Theater World Award for her performance in Good Times Kill.
On the big screen, Chandra Wilson made her debut in the 1993 film Philadelphia, and has since appeared in Raging Dog and Gloria, Sheriff's Star, Free Will Life and Frankie and Alice. On television, she has appeared in Law & Order, Sex and the City, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Sopranos, and also had a regular role in the short-lived sitcom Bob Patterson in 2001.
In 2005, Shonda Rhimes cast Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey in the television series Grey's Anatomy. Although the character was originally intended as a tall and white blonde, when Wilson came to audition, Shonda Rhimes liked the actress so much that she decided to change the character for an actress. The series suddenly proved to be very successful and eventually became one of the most talked about and rated TV projects of the decade. For this role, Wilson won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Drama Series in 2006 and 2007, and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress four years in a row. plan in a drama television series. In 2008, she received the People's Choice Award. The actress also reprized her role in the 2009 spin-off of the series Private Practice.
In 2008, Wilson played her first starring role in the television movie Accidental Friendship, about a homeless woman whose life changes after meeting a police officer. The role earned her an Emmy nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Film in 2009. In early 2014, Wilson, a 35-year longtime fan of ABC's daytime soap opera General Hospital, decided to appear on the show. Wilson has long wanted to star in the soap opera, which is being produced in the adjacent Grey's Anatomy Pavilion, and in December 2013 asked the show's executive producer to create a character for her.
