Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and variety of her talent as a performer and songwriter. The winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 people who are influential 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 at home in Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in role in television and film. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys an impressive career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received training from the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony in addition to her first award in the Leading actress category. She made Broadway history when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. 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 premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal 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 regular in the series. She 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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