Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and versatility as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. Because of her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success on Broadway and in the opera and for television and film. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating she was awarded the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (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 won the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on London's West End. As well as making history with the most competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. In 2021, she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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