Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among 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. Because of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales, she has found success in Broadway and in the opera as well as on television and film. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition area by an actor she also became the first to receive awards in all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. After receiving the first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She is also a guest in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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