Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is second to none. Audra has been awarded six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth, her roles on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as those in films and TV. In addition to her theatre performances, she also has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first in the category of lead actress due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017 she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. She also set the record for winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. After that, in 1999, she appeared 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 program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance 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 named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated in the three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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