Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her artistry as both actor and singer. A record six-time winner of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. Because of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales, she has found success on Broadway and at the opera and for television and film. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first time in the category of lead actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a basis for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. In addition to setting a record in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting, she became the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. In 2000, she was a recurring on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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