Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist because of her range and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. A record six-time winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. As a result of her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident both on Broadway and in the opera, as well as for television and film. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the number of awards an actor has won. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role and McDonald returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received the 4th Emmy nomination for her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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