Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a performer and songwriter. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much comfortable on Broadway and the opera stage as in her role in television and film. Alongside performing on stage, she has built a career that includes a significant recording and concert career. She performs regularly at world-class performances. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her title role performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is the same role she played for her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first person to receive the award across all four categories. McDonald's credits in theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was 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 as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald received an 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018. She reprised her characters (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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