Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is second to none. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She is equally at home in television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys established a successful career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her first award in the Leading actress category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. First actor awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has won. McDonald is also featured in 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 of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald made her television debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.






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