Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is second to none. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales She has had success in Broadway as well as at the opera as well as in both film and television. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she won the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. In 2004, she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also performed in her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. As well as recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first actor to be awarded the award across all four categories. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. In 2021, she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018, as an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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