Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is second to none. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. In 2015, she won record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and received the National Medal of Arts - the highest award for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice makes her a natural on the stage. She has a successful career in concert and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous places around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won the 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 took home two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014, the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Also, she set the record of winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of 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 the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. Her next role was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance in her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's film of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

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