Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. She's equally comfortable on television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she was awarded the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. She took home her fourth Tony by starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. The 6th Tony award in 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway performance. In 2017, she also performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the contest for winning the most Tony Awards by acting, she became the first person to win the four categories of acting. 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 in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance in the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The following year, McDonald appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special guest for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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