Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. As the winner of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much comfortable in Broadway and on the opera stage as in her role in television and film. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performances of 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 and her first nomination award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a basis for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. She also set the record for most awards won by a single actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018 reprised the characters (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical comedy The Gilded Age.






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