Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is at home on Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. Alongside her stage performances, she also has been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first time in the category of lead actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She created Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. In her role in the role of 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 her six award. As the first actress to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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