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Chandra Wilson is an actress and director celebrated as Dr. Miranda Bailey, the formidable surgeon she has played on Grey's Anatomy since 2005. The role, which she also brought to Private Practice and Station 19, earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award and a pair of NAACP Image Awards. Wilson first appeared on a New York stage in 1991, the same year she received a Theatre World Award, and her stage roles include Bonna Willis in The Good Times Are Killing Me. She has remained a gifted musical theater performer with credits in On the Town (1998), Avenue Q (2003) and the Tony-nominated Caroline, or Change (2004). She made her film debut in Philadelphia (1993) and landed her first regular network role on the comedy Bob Patterson (2001), where critics singled out her performance. Guest turns followed on Third Watch, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Sex and the City and The Sopranos. She has also stepped behind the camera as a director. Wilson is a warm, grounded and funny speaker on performance, leadership, perseverance and two decades of life inside a television landmark.