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My worst moment: 'Greenleaf' star Merle Dandridge on the orchestra that played in the wrong key

CHICAGO - When Merle Dandridge studied acting as an undergrad at Roosevelt University, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" taped in Chicago just a few miles to the west. Fast-forward and now Dandridge stars on the family drama "Greenleaf," which airs on Winfrey's OWN cable network, alongside Winfrey herself, who plays a recurring character on the show.

If someone had told Dandridge as a Chicago college student that her career would take this path, would she have believed it? "It sounds like a fantastical otherworldly dream," Dandridge said, "and here it is,

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