Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a performer and songwriter. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. As a result of her stunning soprano's tone and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories, she has found success both on Broadway and in the opera, as well as on television and film. In addition to her stage work, McDonald has built a career that includes a significant performance and recording career. She regularly performs at world-class places. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she was the first to make the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for most awards won by an actor. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her role on the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy award for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. 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. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in three Critics Choice Award awards. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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