Chandra Wilson Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Chandra(on her guilty pleasure): I'm not ready to give them up. I watch everything on ABC and "The Young and the Restless". When I get home I spend four hours every day watching. I've been doing it for 15 years.

Chandra: (whether she‘d make a good doctor in real life) Not at all. I tell everyone, ‘Don’t come to me and ask me for any advice - you could die’. I would be good at the bedside-manner part. I’m good at holding hands and keeping things calm, but don’t ask me to diagnose a thing.

Chandra: I’m so happy for our show. My family is here so I got hugs right away, and the cast is here, so we’re hugging on each other. Maybe we can go have a really expensive dinner. - on hearing she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Greys Anatomy during a promotional visit in Milan.

Trivia

Chandra also won a SAG Award as part of the Grey's Anatomy cast, which won Best Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Chandra was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2006 for her role in Grey’s Anatomy.

Chandra plays Sandra Oh's, Justin Chamber's, and Ellen Pompeo's supposedly much older boss on Grey's Anatomy. However, in real life Chandra is only two years older than Sandra, a year older Justin, and only a little over two months older than Ellen.

Chandra spent four years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

Chandra began performing in musicals at the age of five with Theatre Under the Stars.

In the popular movie Philadelphia Chandra played the character of Chandra.

Chandra attended Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

Chandra has appeared in national television commercials for Blockbuster Video, Burger King, Scope, and the United Negro College Fund as well as numerous radio commercials.

Chandra is 5'0.