Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. A record six-time recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable on television, film and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. She won her fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a basis for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. The actress also broke the record of having the most awards received by one actor. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) 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 year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special appearance on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.
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