Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work in her career as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. A record six-time winner at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling her voice is as at ease in Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her role in television and film. As well as performing on stage, she has built a career that includes a significant recording and concert career. She frequently performs in the most prestigious performances. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the four following years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. The year 2004, she won the fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. Her credits in the theatre include 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's debut as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. Her next appearance was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won the first Emmy for her part in her role in the HBO version 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, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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