Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. As the winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is at home in Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in film and television roles. Apart from her theater work, she has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with 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. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record as the most wins in an award-giving area by an actor she also became the first person ever to win awards for the four acting categories. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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