Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. She has a home in film, television 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 concert and recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. Along with setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving area by an actor she was also the first person ever to receive awards in all four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is a featured appearance on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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