Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talents as a singer and an actor. A record-breaking winner of six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal for Arts --America's most prestigious honor for achievements in the arts--from President Barack Obama. Her talents are equally at home on screen, in television as well as Broadway. Her beautiful soprano makes her a natural on the stage. She is an accomplished performer both in recording and concerts performing regularly in some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her training in classical singing at New York's Juilliard School. The following year, after graduation, she took home her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's Play Master Class (1996) and his production Ragtime (1998) creating the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012, she was awarded five awards, including her first-ever in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer with her sixth nomination for her performance in Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the platform for her Olivier Award nomination 2017 debut in the London's West End. Also, she broke the record of most awards won by an actor. Her theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) the latter of which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to television viewers as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say"The Delany Sisters first 100 years. As of 1999, McDonald co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. After receiving her first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to the network's television program in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and which starred Josh Brolin. The actress joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the next season, she was in a role that was recurring on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a regular in the season premiere of The Good Fight on Paramount+ and received three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. Presently, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.
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