Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist because of her range and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb like those on film or on television. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she was awarded the debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her 4th Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. The actress also broke the record for the having the most awards received by an actor. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' Early 100 Years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald got an 4th Emmy award for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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