Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. She was the recipient of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success both on Broadway as well as at the opera and in both film and television. Apart from her theater work, she has many a career in singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record in the contest to win the most awards by an actor, she was the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. Other credits in the theater are 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 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) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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