Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera are as comfortable as those in films or on television. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at top performances. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. One year after graduation, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. The 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017 she was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she 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 the year 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role on her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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