Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much at home on Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in TV and film roles. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial recording and concert career. She performs regularly at world-class performances. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating she received the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. The year 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to create Broadway historical records when she won the sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Also, she set the record for the having the most awards received by an actor. Other credits in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show 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). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as an recurring role in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her part in The HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald got an 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is a featured character on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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