Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. The winner of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. She is equally at home in film, television and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music in the Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category for her title role performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. In addition to making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first actor to be awarded awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). 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. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.






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