Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is second to none. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys a thriving profession as a recording and concert artist. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The sixth Tony Award in 2014 her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest to win the most awards by an acting, she became the first to have won all four acting categories. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. McDonald was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she played a recurring character on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. In 2021, she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

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