Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. Record-breaking six times winner at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Due to her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident both on Broadway and in the opera, as well as for television and film. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. A year after graduating she received the debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the subsequent four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside 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 role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. She also set the record of winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After that, in 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. In 2021, she starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.






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