Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and performer. Record-breaking six times winner from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable on television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Her career has been successful performing and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. 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 for the category of leading actress for her title role performance for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. Along with setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first to win the award for all four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions, including 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 of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit produced 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. In early 2006 she joined the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' historical comedy The Gilded Age.






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