Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald, the winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize excellence in the field. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a knack for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb with roles in film and television. As well as her theatrical work, she has an active career as a music producer and concert artist. She has a regular performance schedule in some of the top venues around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her classical training at the New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a show for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. She won her fourth Tony in the role of Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award for playing 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. In addition, she set the record for most award wins by an actor. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to a television audience as a dramatic actress in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the well-received 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and then in 2000 she played a regular role in NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her performance as a character in her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she made her return to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald began her role as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance was recognized with three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is a guest star on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.






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