Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and her versatility as a singer and actor. Record-breaking six times winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth, her roles on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film as well as on TV. In addition to performing on stage, she has built a career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She frequently performs in world-class places. McDonald is a member of a musical family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training at the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating McDonald won an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The actress won his 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 won five Tony Awards and was the first award in the leading actress category for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions which include 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 Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received the first Emmy for her performance in The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. In 2021, she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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