Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from President Barack Obama. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident both on Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as on television and film. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at top places. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating, she won the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. The year 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. She created Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Also, she set the record for having the most awards received by a single actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won the first Emmy for her role as a character in her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. McDonald starred along 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 appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role was seen in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018, as season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She appears as a special guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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