Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, as well as an actor. She has been a six-time record recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in film, television as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received the sixth Tony Award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to setting a record in the contest in which she won the most awards by an acting, she became the first person to win all four acting categories. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance on the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on the NBC television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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