Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a performer and song writer. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize given in America for artistic achievement - from the president Barack Obama. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident in Broadway as well as at the opera as well as on television and film. Apart from her theater work, she has been a busy recording and 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 training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history when she became the world's most famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. As well as recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first person to receive the award for all four categories of acting. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked 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 the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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