Chandra Wilson (Chandra Danette Wilson)
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Biography
Houston, Texas, USA
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. Read more... 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.
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.
Actor

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Herself - Host
The ABC's of Schoolhouse Rock 2014
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Herself
The 38th Annual Gracie Awards 2013
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Herself
42nd NAACP Image Awards 2011
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Herself
The 40th NAACP Image Awards 2009
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Coretta Scott King
A Single Woman 2008
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Yvonne
Accidental Friendship 2008
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Herself
39th NAACP Image Awards 2008
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Herself
37th NAACP Image Awards 2006
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Inmate
Strangers with Candy 2005
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Character:
Jaime
Head of State 2003
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Character:
Athena
Lone Star 1996
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Chandra
Philadelphia 1993
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Maxine
Frankie & Alice 2010
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Herself
41st NAACP Image Awards 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
A Hard Day's Night 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
No Man's Land 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Shake Your Groove Thing 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
If Tomorrow Never Comes 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Self-Destruct Button 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Save Me 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Who's Zoomin' Who? 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Enough Is Enough 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Make Me Lose Control 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Deny, Deny, Deny 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Bring the Pain 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Into You Like a Train 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Something to Talk About 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Let It Be 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Thanks for the Memories 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Much Too Much 2005
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Owner of a Lonely Heart 2005
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10

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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Begin the Begin 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Tell Me Sweet Little Lies 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Break on Through 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
It's the End of the World 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
As We Know It 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Yesterday 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Superstition 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Name of the Game 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Blues for Sister Someone 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Damage Case 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
17 Seconds 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Losing My Religion 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Time Has Come Today 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Am a Tree 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Sometimes a Fantasy 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
What I Am 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Oh, the Guilt 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Let the Angels Commit 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Where the Boys Are 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Staring at the Sun 2006
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Six Days: Part 1 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Six Days: Part 2 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Great Expectations 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Wishin' and Hopin' 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Walk on Water 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Drowning on Dry Land 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Some Kind of Miracle 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Scars and Souvenirs 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
My Favorite Mistake 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Time After Time 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Desire 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Testing 1-2-3 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
A Change Is Gonna Come 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Love/Addiction 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Let the Truth Sting 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Heart of the Matter 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Haunt You Every Day 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Kung Fu Fighting 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Forever Young 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Crash Into Me: Part 1 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Crash Into Me: Part 2 2007
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Lay Your Hands on Me 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Where the Wild Things Are 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Piece of My Heart 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Becoming 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Losing My Mind 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Freedom: Part 1 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Freedom: Part 2 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Here Comes the Flood 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Brave New World 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
There's No 'I' in Team 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Life During Wartime 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Rise Up 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
These Ties That Bind 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
In the Midnight Hour 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
All by Myself 2008
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Wish You Were Here 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Sympathy for the Devil 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Stairway to Heaven 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Beat Your Heart Out 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Before and After 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
An Honest Mistake 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Stand by Me 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Elevator Love Letter 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Sweet Surrender 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Here's to Future Days 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Now or Never 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Good Mourning 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Goodbye 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Tainted Obligation 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Invasion 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Saw What I Saw 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Give Peace a Chance 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Invest in Love 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
New History 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Holidaze 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Blink 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
State of Love and Trust 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Valentine's Day Massacre 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Time Warp 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Perfect Little Accident 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Push 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Suicide Is Painless 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Sympathy for the Parents 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Hook, Line and Sinner 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
How Insensitive 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Shiny Happy People 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Sanctuary 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Death and All His Friends 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
With You I'm Born Again 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Shock to the System 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Superfreak 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Can't Fight Biology 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Almost Grown 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
These Arms of Mine 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
That's Me Trying 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Something's Gotta Give 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Slow Night, So Long 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Adrift and at Peace 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Disarm 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Start Me Up 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Golden Hour 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Not Responsible 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
This Is How We Do It 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Song Beneath the Song 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
It's a Long Way Back 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
White Wedding 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Will Survive 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Unaccompanied Minor 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Free Falling 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
She's Gone 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Take the Lead 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
What Is It About Men 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Love, Loss and Legacy 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Poker Face 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Put Me in, Coach 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Heart-Shaped Box 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Dark Was the Night 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Suddenly 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
This Magic Moment 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Hope for the Hopeless 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
If/Then 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
All You Need Is Love 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Have You Seen Me Lately? 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
If Only You Were Lonely 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
One Step Too Far 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Lion Sleeps Tonight 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Support System 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Girl with No Name 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Moment of Truth 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Let the Bad Times Roll 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Migration 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Flight 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Going Going Gone 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Remember the Time 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Love the One You're With 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Saw Her Standing There 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Beautiful Doom 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Second Opinion 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Was Made for Lovin' You 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Run, Baby, Run 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Things We Said Today 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Walking on a Dream 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Bad Blood 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Face of Change 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Hard Bargain 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
This Is Why We Fight 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Transplant Wasteland 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Idle Hands 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Can't Fight This Feeling 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
She's Killing Me 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Sleeping Monster 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Do You Believe in Magic 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Readiness Is All 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Perfect Storm 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Seal Our Fate 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Want You with Me 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Everybody's Crying Mercy 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Puttin' on the Ritz 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Bet It Stung 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Map of You 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Thriller 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Two Against One 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Man on the Moon 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Get Up, Stand Up 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Take It Back 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Throwing It All Away 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Do You Know? 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
You Be Illin' 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I'm Winning 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Go It Alone 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Change of Heart 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Fear (of the Unknown) 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Got to Be Real 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Only Mama Knows 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Bend & Break 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Don't Let's Start 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Risk 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Where Do We Go From Here? 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
All I Could Do Was Cry 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Great Pretender 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Staring at the End 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Distance 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Feel the Earth Move 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Don't Dream It's Over 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
With or Without You 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
When I Grow Up 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Crazy Love
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
One Flight Down 2015
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Character:
Nurse Jenkins
Waste 2002
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Rachel Sorannis
911 2005
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Evelyn Greenwood
Cold Cuts 2004
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Police Officer
Anchors Away 2002
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Herself
It's Game Time 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
How to Save a Life 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
She's Leaving Home 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Time Stops 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
You're My Home 2015
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Gloria
CBS Schoolbreak Special 1984
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Lena Gladwell
Muted 2014
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Herself
The 63rd Annual Tony Awards 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Sledgehammer 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Walking Tall 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Choose You 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Old Time Rock and Roll 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Me Nobody Knows 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Something Against You 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Unbreak My Heart 0
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Herself
E! Live from the Red Carpet 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Trigger Happy 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Family Affair 0
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Herself - Guest
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Herself - Special Guest
Episode #1.6 0
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Herself - Special Guest
Episode #1.7 0
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Herself - Special Guest
Episode #1.8 0
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Herself - Special Guest
Episode #1.9 0
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Herself - Special Guest
Episode #1.10 0
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Herself
Grey's Anatomy/Noah Levy 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Ex-Life 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Right Here, Right Now 0
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Herself
Grey's Anatomy's Chandra Wilson 0
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Herself
Episode #3.33 0
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Herself
Episode #3.94 0
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Herself
Episode #1.34 0
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Herself
Episode #4.30 0
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Herself
Patton Oswalt/Chandra Wilson 0
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Herself
Episode #4.258 0
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Herself
Episode #4.376 0
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Herself
Episode #7.41 0
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Dolores
The House Next Door 0
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Herself - Guest
Episode #1.4 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Both Sides Now 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Roar 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Why Try to Change Me Now 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
The Room Where It Happens 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
You Haven't Done Nothin' 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Jukebox Hero 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
None of Your Business 0
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
It Only Gets Much Worse 0
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Directing

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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Give Peace a Chance 2009
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Push 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Almost Grown 2010
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
White Wedding 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Take the Lead 2011
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Moment of Truth 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Second Opinion 2012
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Transplant Wasteland 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
I Want You with Me 2013
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Do You Know? 2014
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
With or Without You 2015
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Dr. Miranda Bailey
Both Sides Now 0
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