Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talents as an actor and singer. She was the recipient of an unprecedented Six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was recognized by Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award for artistic achievement in America to recognize artistic accomplishment and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. A dazzling soprano and an incomparable gift for telling dramatic truths her voice is at ease in Broadway and on the opera stage as in her film or television characters. Alongside her stage performances, she also has many facets of her career, including singer and concert performer. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training from The Juilliard School of New York. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the top performance of a Featured actress in a show for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and the first award in the category of leading actress, for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most decorated Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also instrumental in launching the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her sixth Tony Award. In addition to setting the record for the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first actor to be awarded honors in the four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). She was the very first actress to receive an award in each of the four acting categories. McDonald's debut as a dramatic acting on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed ABC/Disney remake of Annie during 1999 she was a recurring character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy due to her character as a character in The HBO versions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald starred on the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned a fourth Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. In 2021, she appeared along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald began her role as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal crime thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is a guest star on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.






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