Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as an actress and a performer. As the winner of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She has a home in film, television and Broadway. Her luminous soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She frequently performs in world-class venues. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. She also set the record for the most awards won by an actor. Her other credits for theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made 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 television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' Early 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She became a character on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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