Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Record-breaking six times winner from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a gift to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies as well as on TV. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony by starring on stage in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to making history with the most competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first to win honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald got a 4th Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. In 2021, she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018, reprised these roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She is also a guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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