Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her artistry as both actor and singer. The winner of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice makes her a natural on the stage. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed musician and recording artist. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The year 2004, she received her 4th Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest in which she won the most awards for actor, she was the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Award for her role on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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