Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. As the winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent for dramatic truth-telling her voice is as at ease in Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in role in television and film. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She received classical vocal training at The Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014, the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. As well as making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth night (2009). McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appeared on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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