Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. A record six-time recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She is equally at home in television, film as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, CA. She received classical vocal training at the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. She took home her 4th Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first award in the Leading actress category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to setting the record as the most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she was also the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald got a 4th Emmy award for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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