Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and versatility as an actor and singer. She has been a six-time record recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth, her roles in Broadway or the opera are as comfortable as those in films as well as on TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. One year after graduation, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Also, she set the record for the having the most awards received by an actor. Her other credits for theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a 4th Emmy nomination for her part in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is also a guest in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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