Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talent as actor and singer. The winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. She is equally at home in film, television and Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at several of the most famous performances around the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway performance. In 2017, she also performed in her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has received. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was 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 the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. In 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her role in The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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