Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her talent as a singer and an actor. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from President Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her 4th Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony in addition to her 1st in the Leading actress category. When she won the sixth Tony Award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she also was the first to make her West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. The first actor to be recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role on the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. 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 from 2009 until 2018, reprised these roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.






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