Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a unique artist in terms of the range and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. As the winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. In the four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first in the category of lead actress due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most popular Tony Award nominee. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive area by an actor she also became the first person ever to win awards for each of the four types of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes 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, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. After receiving the first Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. 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. She reprised her role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is guest on Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.






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