Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film or on television. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing been a busy recording and concert artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. She also set the record for having the most awards received by one actor. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald got a 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is also a guest in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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