Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. The winner of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles in Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb like those on film and TV. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at several of the most famous performances around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. Following her graduation, she was awarded the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). After four more years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category for an actor, she was also the first person ever to be awarded in all four categories of acting. 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), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in 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. McDonald made her television debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. In 1999, she starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. After receiving her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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