Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the breadth of her talent and versatility as an actor and singer. She has been a six-time record recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. In addition to her theatre work, she has been a busy recording and concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017 she made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. Her credits in the theatre includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her part on her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The following year, McDonald 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 actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.
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