Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. As the winner of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. Because of her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident in Broadway and at the opera and for television and film. Apart from her theater work, she has been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She won her 4th Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. In addition to setting the record for most wins in a competitive category for an actor, she became the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she was a recurring on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared 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 the role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated in Three Critics Choice Award awards. McDonald guest-stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.
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