Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety as a singer, and actor. Record-breaking six times winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories her success has been evident on Broadway and in the opera, as well as in both film and television. Alongside her stage performances, she also has an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born into a musical family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating McDonald won an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony by starring in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. As well as making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win awards in all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on the NBC's hit 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 directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Award for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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