Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety as a singer, as well as an actor. Record-breaking six times winner of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is as at ease on Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theatre, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition area by an actor she also became the first to win awards for each of the four types of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise 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 premiere 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 introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's 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 and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' historic comedy The Gilded Age.






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