Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and her versatility as an actor and singer. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from the President Barack Obama. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories her success has been evident both on Broadway as well as at the opera as well as for television and film. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the subsequent four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the sixth Tony Award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she also performed in the West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. First actor awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role in the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a 4th Emmy nomination for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age.






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