Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in her breadth of talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. A record six-time recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. As a result of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories her success has been evident on Broadway as well as at the opera and for television and film. Apart from performing in theater, McDonald also has an impressive career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The 6th Tony award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first actor to be awarded honors for all four categories of acting. Other credits in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. She was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was in a role that was recurring on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received an fourth Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appeared in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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