Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist because of her range and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor given in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by President Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. Following her graduation, she was awarded the 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 also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She won her 4th Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. She also set the record of having the most awards received by an actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as an episode the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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