Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a unique artist in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. A record six-time recipient from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much at home in Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also an impressive profession as a music and concert performer. Born into a musical family McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting a record in which she won the most awards by an actor, she was the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. The credits she has in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 to star in the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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