Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talents as actor and singer. The winner of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent for dramatic truth-telling her voice is comfortable in Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in role in television and film. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. She made Broadway history as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Also, she set the record of most awards won by a single actor. Her other credits for theater are 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 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) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald received her debut Emmy for her part on her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a 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 these role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in Three Critics Choice Award awards. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

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