Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Record-breaking six times winner at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much as at ease in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in role in television and film. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first in the category of lead actress due to her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a basis for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. The first actor to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has won. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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