Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. As a result of her stunning soprano's tone and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success in Broadway and at the opera as well as on television and film. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys established a successful profession as a recording and concert artist. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received training at the Juilliard School of New York. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. The year 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award 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 London's West End. In addition to setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first actor to be awarded awards for all four categories of acting. The credits she has in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. After that, in 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she was a recurring on NBC's popular program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy award for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. 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. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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