Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is second to none. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. As the winner of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. She has a home in film, television and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Her career has been successful in concert and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also was awarded 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. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first actor to be awarded 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 in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. McDonald then appeared as the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. McDonald guest-stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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