Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is unparalleled. She has won six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She is equally at home in television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Her career has been successful performing and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious places around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the four following years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has received. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. Her next role was that of a character actor on NBC's 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 part in The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed 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., which starred Josh Brolin. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

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