Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is unmatched. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. As the winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling her voice is at home on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has established a successful career which includes a significant concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in world-class places. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the contest in which she won the most awards for acting, she became the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was awarded an 4th Emmy award for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is also a guest in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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