Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an unprecedented 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 accomplishments. She has a home in television, film and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. After graduating, she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. She created Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. In addition to making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first to win honors in all four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, 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 first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got an fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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