Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. As the winner of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much comfortable in Broadway as well as on the stage as in her role in television and film. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at the Juilliard School, New York. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of performances in the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 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 made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. 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 her 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) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie called 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 with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.

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