Chandra Wilson has a high-profile vocation playing Dr. Miranda Bailey connected TV’s wildly fashionable deed bid Grey’s Anatomy. But the Emmy nominated actress and People’s Choice Award winner, 53, has a fulfilling beingness down the scenes arsenic well. And though she’s been highly backstage astir her longtime partner, she does sometimes unfastened up astir her 3 children, ranging successful property from 16 to 28.
Here’s what you request to cognize astir Chandra’s 2 daughters and 1 lad with her elusive spouse of implicit 30 years.
Sarina McFarlane

Chandra’s archetypal child, girl Sarina McFarlane, was calved successful 1992. According to People, Chandra’s eldest is highly intelligent and creative, having studied screenwriting astatine Cal State Northridge. But according to the magazine, the histrion went done a hard clip erstwhile her daughter, past 16, began to endure from unexplained nausea and vomiting. Her relation connected tv arsenic a aesculapian nonrecreational rapidly became each excessively real.
Sarina, it turns out, suffers from a rare, incurable vomiting syndrome. “I recovered myself tracking what foods she was eating, wherever we were, tracking each this accusation myself,” Chandra told the outlet successful 2017. “Each infirmary visit, I would enactment the info into a binder. By period eight, I was walking astir with this gigantic binder.” Sarina added that the upset is thing that continually recurs. “I could beryllium bittersweet astir it, but it’s going to travel backmost anyway.”
According to People, Sarina was yet diagnosed successful 2010 with mitochondrial dysfunction and cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS). Per Sarina’s Instagram account, she aspires to beryllium a “full clip novelist” and regularly shares her drawings connected the platform.
According to Parade Magazine, her eldest girl accompanied Chandra to the NAACP Image Awards successful 2007, and erstwhile asked astir celebrating together, the histrion quipped, “She’ll astir apt privation to halt astatine McDonald’s connected the mode home.”
Joylin McFarlane

Joylin McFarlane, calved successful 1998, is Chandra Wilson’s 2nd daughter. Though she has an progressive beingness connected societal media, small is known astir the actress’s mediate child. Joylin has reportedly pursued a postgraduate degree successful concern analytics and is successful a agelong word narration with fellow Grant Fairman. She appears to person a blessed location beingness arsenic well, posting a household photograph of her siblings and parents successful matching Christmas pajamas successful December of 2020, and sharing pics of them astatine Disneyland.
When asked by Parade Magazine successful 2007 whether immoderate of her kids wanted to act, Chandra joked astir Joy’s outgoing personality. “They haven’t expressed immoderate interest,” she told the publication. “But the mediate 1 is the ‘mugger.’”
Michael McFarlane

As Chandra has continued her career, appearing connected assorted shows including Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she was besides expanding her family. The Lone Star and Head of State histrion gave commencement to her youngest child, and lone son, connected Halloween of 2005, making him the lone remaining insignificant successful his family’s household. Michael’s begetter has hardly been touched connected successful Chandra’s interviews, though she did hint astatine the quality of the narration successful a past interview. “He and I person a 19-year relationship,” she told Parade backmost successful 2007. “We spell backmost and forth, but it works for us.”