Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth in her career as an artist is unparalleled. She has won six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. She has a home in television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a recording performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very 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 received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. 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 Tony Awards and was the first award in the leading actress category for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In the year she received her Sixth Tony in the year 2014 her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. McDonald has also been featured 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 also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role on The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing Season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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