Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talents as actor and singer. A record six-time winner from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much at home in Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in role in television and film. Alongside her stage performances, she also has an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, 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). Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. As well as making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. Her credits in the theatre include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her performance on her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these characters (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She appears as a special character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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