Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth, she is as much at home in Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. One year after graduation, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was won for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald received her first Emmy for her role on The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her role on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018, she recast the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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