Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. She was the recipient of a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor given in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. Because of her beautiful tone, and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident in Broadway and at the opera and in both film and television. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. The year 2004, she received her 4th Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony in addition to her first award in the Leading actress category. She made Broadway history 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 the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. In addition to setting a record in the competition to win the most awards by an actor, she was the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on her role 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 in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The actress became a character on The Bedford Diaries of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's film of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018 reprised the roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.






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