Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talent as a singer and an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth her voice is comfortable in Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in film and television roles. Apart from her theater work, she has been a busy musician and recording artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald is a member of a musical family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training from The Juilliard School of New York. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. In addition to setting the record for most wins in an award-giving area by an actor she became the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. The following year, she received her first Emmy award for 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 network television in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. In 2021, she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the role (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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