Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera stage are just as easy like those on film or on television. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. She was awarded her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record in the competition in which she won the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. Her other credits for theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show 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 seen on TV as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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