Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is unparalleled. She has won six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth, she is as much as at ease in Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her film and television roles. She has a successful career performing and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. Born into a musical family McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as 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 for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Not only did she set the record for most awards in a competition category by an actor, she became the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside 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. McDonald received her first Emmy for her part as a character in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. She was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role was seen on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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