Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a unique performer in the diversity and scope of her talent as an actress and a vocalist. Her 2015 season saw her win record-breaking Six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. Her work was selected as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award for artistic achievement in America to recognize artistic accomplishment as awarded by President Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a knack to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles on Broadway or in the opera stage are just as comfortable with roles in film and TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer in the field of recording and concert artist, regularly performing at major venues across the globe. McDonald was born into a musically inclined household located in Fresno California. She received classical vocal training from The Juilliard School of New York. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard, McDonald took home the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. Through the subsequent four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress of Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) which gave her a total of 3 Tony Awards at the age of just thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first one in the category the leading actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award nominee. She played Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her the six Tony Awards. The actress also broke the record for the most prizes won by an actor. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921, and All That Followed (2016). She was the first actress to be awarded in every one of the acting categories. McDonald's initial appearance as a television actor was with the award-winning Peabody Award CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In the following years, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and in 2000 she appeared in a variety of roles on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her part as a character in The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined in the ensemble of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on NBC's popular television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS drama, a legal-themed thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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