Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in her breadth of talent and her versatility as a singer and actor. A record six-time recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth her voice is as at ease on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her role in television and film. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys an impressive profession as a musician and recording artist. Born into a musical family McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As well as recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, as well as becoming the first person to receive the award in all four acting categories. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her part on her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the Season 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' historical film The Gilded Age.

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