Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is unmatched. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and received the National Medal of Arts - the top award for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence by President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film as well as on TV. Alongside her stage performances, she also has many a career in 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 that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. She won the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first award in the leading actress category for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. Along with setting the record for most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she also became the first actor to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald first appeared on television as a character actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The actress was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is a featured guest for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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