Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times winner from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from her theater performances, she also has been a busy musician and recording artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. Aside from setting a record in the contest for winning the most awards for acting, she became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. The credits she has in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in 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 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. She was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018 reprised the characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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