Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and versatility as an actor and singer. She has been a six-time record recipient at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy like those on film and TV. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing an active career as a recording and concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She took home her 4th Tony when she starred on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony in addition to her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth 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. As well as making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first person to receive the award for all four categories of acting. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her performance on her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.

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