Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth She is equally at home in Broadway as well as on the stage as in her TV and film roles. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major performance and recording career. She performs regularly at the most prestigious places. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. Also, she set the record of most awards won by a single actor. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald got a fourth Emmy award for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.






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