Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. As a result of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories her success has been evident both on Broadway as well as at the opera as well as in both film and television. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in singer and a concert artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she received 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, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony, and also her 1st in the Leading actress category. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in 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. McDonald was introduced to the TV audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. After receiving her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received the 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for Three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.






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