- Born
- Birth nameChandra Danette Wilson
- Height5′ (1.52 m)
- Houston, Texas native Chandra Wilson began performing in musicals at the age of five with Theatre Under the Stars. She attended Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and later went on to acquire her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts through which she spent four years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Chandra's first series regular job was on ABC's Bob Patterson (2001) in the role of Claudia Hopper. She has made numerous other television appearances including guest-starring and recurring roles. She has also appeared in national television commercials for Blockbuster Video, Burger King, Scope, and the United Negro College Fund as well as numerous radio commercials.
Aside from film and television, she has several New York stage credits. Her portrayal of Bonna Willis in the production of "The Good Times are Killing Me" by Lynda Barry (both at the Second Stage and Minetta Lane Theatres) won her a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance.
Some of her other stage credits include "Paper Moon: The Musical" at the Papermill Playhouse, "The Family of Mann" by Theresa Rebeck, "Believing" for the Young Playwright's Festival and the Broadway production of "On the Town" directed by George C. Wolfe.
- IMDb mini biography by: chandrawilson.com
- ChildrenJoySerenaMichael
- ParentsWilma Dean Bradshaw
- Inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in Austin, Texas on March 10, 2016.
- Daughter Joy was born in 1994
- Daughter Serena was born in 1992
- Son Michael was born October 31st, 2005
- BFA in Drama - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1991)
- I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.
- Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.
- I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.
- I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.
- Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
- Grey's Anatomy (2005) - $125,000 / episode
- Grey's Anatomy (2005) - $125,000 /episode (2007- )
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