Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is second to none. Audra has been awarded six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. A record six-time winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. As well as her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which is a major recording and concert career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious performances. Born into a musical family McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress for her title role performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. She also set the record of most awards won by an actor. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. She appeared on the show in 1999. starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. After receiving the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play 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 starring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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