Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the breadth and versatility of her talent as actor and singer. Record-breaking six times recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies as well as on TV. In addition to performing on stage, she has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She frequently performs in the most prestigious performances. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record in the contest to win the most awards for actor, she was the first to have won the four categories of acting. McDonald's credits in theater includes 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 of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald made her television debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy award for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. 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. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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