Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a performer and song writer. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as those in films as well as on TV. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She took home her fourth Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony in addition to her first award in the Leading actress category. The sixth Tony Award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Not only did she set records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category for an actor, she was also the first actor to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald's credits in theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked 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 as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. In 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her debut Emmy nomination for her role 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 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The actress became a character on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing Season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.






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