Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was received with the National Medal of Arts - the top award in America for artistic achievement by the president Barack Obama. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success both on Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as on television and film. She has a successful career in concert and recording, appearing regularly at several of the most famous performances around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) giving her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony in addition to her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on the London's West End. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). 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. Her next role was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. 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. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.






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