Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home 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. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 as she became the highest famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal in the role of 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 the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. The first actor to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald set a record for the amount of awards an actor has won. Her theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. Her next role was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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