Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as a singer and an actor. The winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth her voice is at home in Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in role in television and film. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she also performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Along with making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win the award across all four categories. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. After receiving her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The actress was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.






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