Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as an artist is unmatched. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. Because of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales, she has found success in Broadway as well as at the opera and in both film and television. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant performance and recording career. She frequently performs in top venues. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, as well as becoming the first actor to be awarded honors in all four acting categories. McDonald's theater credits also includes 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 in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. She was a part of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded an fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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