Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. She was the recipient of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of the year 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies and TV. As well as her stage work, McDonald has built a career that has a substantial recording and concert career. She frequently performs in world-class performances. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received training at The Juilliard School of New York. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first to win the award in all four acting categories. The credits she has in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was 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 as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which was the first to introduce McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on the NBC television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her role on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. In 2021, she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's period drama The Gilded Age.






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