Audra McDonald

Audra McDonald

Audra Ann McDonald is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her work on the Broadway stage, she has won six Tony Awards, more performance wins than any other actor, and is the only person to win in all four acting categories. She has performed in musicals, operas, and dramas such as A Moon for the Misbegotten, 110 in the Shade, Carousel, Ragtime, Master Class, and Porgy and Bess. In addition to her six Tony Awards, she has received numerous accolades including two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 2016 from President Barack Obama and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2017.

  • Title: Audra McDonald
  • Popularity: 6.166
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1970-07-03
  • Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
  • Homepage: http://audramcdonald.net/
  • Also Known As: Audra Ann McDonald
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Audra McDonald Movies

  • 2021
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    The Kennedy Center at 50

    The Kennedy Center at 50

    10 2021 HD

    Echoing "An American Pageant for the Arts," the 1962 event conducted by Leonard Bernstein, this special celebration and re-launch of live, in-person...

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  • 2003
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    It Runs in the Family

    It Runs in the Family

    6 2003 HD

    This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

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  • 1999
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    Cradle Will Rock

    Cradle Will Rock

    6.453 1999 HD

    A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

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  • 2008
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    A Raisin in the Sun

    A Raisin in the Sun

    6.125 2008 HD

    Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves...

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  • 2001
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    Wit

    Wit

    7.374 2001 HD

    A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

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  • 1999
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    Annie

    Annie

    6.4 1999 HD

    Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the...

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  • 2023
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    Rustin

    Rustin

    6.7 2023 HD

    Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on...

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  • 2011
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    Rampart

    Rampart

    5.461 2011 HD

    The story follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his...

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  • 2004
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    The Best Thief in the World

    The Best Thief in the World

    4.4 2004 HD

    Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.

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  • 2010
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    Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

    Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

    8 2010 HD

    Join us for a rousing celebration of the life and works of one of Broadway's greatest legends — the one and only Stephen Sondheim. For the...

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  • 1996
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    Seven Servants

    Seven Servants

    4.6 1996 HD

    An elderly man wants to exit earth in a state of unity with all creatures. To that end, he hires a quartet of manservants to plug his facial orifices...

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  • 1998
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    The Object of My Affection

    The Object of My Affection

    5.8 1998 HD

    A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him,...

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  • 2013
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    The Sound of Music Live!

    The Sound of Music Live!

    6.3 2013 HD

    The Sound of Music Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron,...

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  • 2023
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    Origin

    Origin

    6.7 2023 HD

    While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the...

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  • 2013
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    Six by Sondheim

    Six by Sondheim

    7.056 2013 HD

    This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

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  • 2002
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    Wonderful Town

    Wonderful Town

    1 2002 HD

    The classic musical by Bernstein, Comden and Green is performed live in concert in Berlin, starring Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson, Brent Barrett and...

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  • 2023
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    Whitney Houston in Focus

    Whitney Houston in Focus

    1 2023 HD

    Iconic photographer Bette Marshall reminisces on her memories as photographer of Whitney Houston right before she ascended to stardom.

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  • 2014
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    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    8.1 2014 HD

    In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt...

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  • 2007
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    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    1 2007 HD

    - Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown...

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  • 2005
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    Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Featuring Audra McDonald and Peter Graves

    Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square Featuring Audra McDonald and Peter Graves

    10 2005 HD

    Four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald and veteran movie and television star Peter Graves join with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at...

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  • 2024
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    My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert

    My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert

    10 2024 HD

    Featuring a 40-piece orchestra and international stars of the stage and screen, My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary...

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  • 2018
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    Sutton Foster in Concert

    Sutton Foster in Concert

    1 2018 HD

    Two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster brings her irresistible show-stopping talent and effusive charm to the intimate Appel Room for a special night...

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  • 2024
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    Ragtime Reunion Concert

    Ragtime Reunion Concert

    1 2024 HD

    This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an electrifying tapestry of three families from vastly...

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  • 2015
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    Ricki and the Flash

    Ricki and the Flash

    5.787 2015 HD

    Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning...

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  • 2017
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    Broadway: The Next Generation

    Broadway: The Next Generation

    10 2017 HD

    A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

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  • 1999
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    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

    7.5 1999 HD

    Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up...

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  • 2023
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    Down Low

    Down Low

    5.1 2023 HD

    A repressed gay man develops an unlikely friendship with a young masseur who teaches him to embrace life.

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  • 2016
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    Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

    Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

    7.5 2016 HD

    It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salty, often humorous,...

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  • 2005
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    Passion

    Passion

    1 2005 HD

    Passion is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione...

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  • 2024
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    Audra McDonald at the London Palladium

    Audra McDonald at the London Palladium

    1 2024 HD

    The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy awards and an Emmy, Audra McDonald performs a repertoire of classic Broadway...

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  • 2013
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    The Ordained

    The Ordained

    1 2013 HD

    About the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.

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  • 2025
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    The Auction

    The Auction

    1 2025 HD

    Plot kept under wraps.

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  • 2017
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    Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

    6.972 2017 HD

    A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

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  • 2016
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    Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas

    Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas

    6.8 2016 HD

    This holiday special goes back in time to show how Elmo's ancestors--not to mention those of Grover, Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Oscar the Grouch and...

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  • 2000
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    The Last Debate

    The Last Debate

    1 2000 HD

    A presidential debate, unconfirmed rumors and four reporters who take the political process into their own hands. With the election only a week away,...

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  • 2017
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    Hello Again

    Hello Again

    5.9 2017 HD

    Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of...

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  • 2018
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    Every Act of Life

    Every Act of Life

    7 2018 HD

    The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay...

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  • 2018
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    Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

    Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood

    10 2018 HD

    In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—dedicated its...

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  • 2005
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    Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

    Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

    7.2 2005 HD

    Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great...

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  • 1999
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    My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies

    My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies

    9 1999 HD

    On Sept. 28, 1998, some of the greatest divas in musical theater -- including Marin Mazzie, Judy Kuhn and Audra McDonald -- took the stage at New...

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  • 2006
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    Audra McDonald and Friends: Build a Bridge

    Audra McDonald and Friends: Build a Bridge

    10 2006 HD

    Audra McDonald, already renowned for her virtuosity in classical and Broadway song, brings her talents to new genres by interpreting works of pop and...

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  • 2006
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    Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve

    Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve

    10 2006 HD

    Broadway and concert star Audra McDonald rings in the new year with a program of cherished song standards by Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Harold...

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  • 2013
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    Audra McDonald: Go Back Home

    Audra McDonald: Go Back Home

    10 2013 HD

    Audra McDonald sings personal favorites and selections from her new album, Go Back Home.

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  • 2021
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    Respect

    Respect

    6.8 2021 HD

    The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

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  • 2012
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    One Singular Sensation! Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch

    One Singular Sensation! Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch

    1 2012 HD

    Stars from Broadway and television join the New York Philharmonic to ring in the New Year with a joyous celebration of the music of Marvin Hamlisch....

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  • 2020
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    Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

    Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

    7.6 2020 HD

    To celebrate the 90th birthday of Broadway songwriting great Stephen Sondheim, an A-list group of performers sing songs of inspiration from his...

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  • 2000
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    Audra McDonald at the Donmar, London

    Audra McDonald at the Donmar, London

    1 2000 HD

    Audra McDonald, Tony Award-winner for Carousel, Master Class, and Ragtime, appears live in concert from the Donmar Warehouse in London. In a program...

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  • 2020
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    Live with Carnegie Hall: Audra McDonald

    Live with Carnegie Hall: Audra McDonald

    10 2020 HD

    From her stage and concert performances to her television and film roles, six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is recognized for both her...

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  • 2020
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    The Metropolitan Opera: Porgy and Bess

    The Metropolitan Opera: Porgy and Bess

    9.5 2020 HD

    The Gershwins’ modern American masterpiece has its first Met performances in almost three decades, starring bass-baritone Eric Owens and...

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  • 2020
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    An Evening With Audra McDonald

    An Evening With Audra McDonald

    10 2020 HD

    Experience the magnificent voice and luminous stage presence of Audra McDonald—winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards and the first...

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  • 2015
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    Josh Groban: Stages Live

    Josh Groban: Stages Live

    1 2015 HD

    Recorded before a live audience at the historic Los Angeles Theatre, Josh Groban delves into his first love --Broadway musicals-- and brings some of...

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  • 2020
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    In Concert at The Hollywood Bowl: Musicals and the Movies

    In Concert at The Hollywood Bowl: Musicals and the Movies

    10 2020 HD

    Dive into the love affair between Hollywood and Broadway in this episode celebrating classic songs from Broadway musicals and classic cinema. Enjoy...

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  • 2020
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    Song of Rapa Nui

    Song of Rapa Nui

    10 2020 HD

    This feature length documentary tells the story of Mahani Teave who grew up on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and left at age 9 to pursue her dream of...

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  • 2009
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    Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

    Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me

    7.2 2009 HD

    Commemorating the centennial of Mercer's birth, this documentary is part biography, part archive, and part recontextualization, taking Mercer's tunes...

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  • 2021
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    Ohio State Murders

    Ohio State Murders

    10 2021 HD

    Ohio State Murders is an unusual look at the destructiveness of racism in the U.S. When Suzanne Alexander, a fictional African American writer,...

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  • 2013
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    Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center

    Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center

    7.5 2013 HD

    Transferring the setting of a brooding Hungarian play, Carousel, to a remote fishing village, shaping their vision around themes of brutality,...

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  • 2018
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    New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve: Bernstein on Broadway

    New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve: Bernstein on Broadway

    1 2018 HD

    Who can resist Bernstein on Broadway? Toast the New Year and our Laureate Conductor’s 100th with West Side Story’s star-crossed lovers,...

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  • 2024
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    Satisfied

    Satisfied

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
    imgMovies

    Audra McDonald at the London Palladium

    Audra McDonald at the London Palladium

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2004
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    The Tony Danza Show

    The Tony Danza Show

    6.1 2004 HD

    The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television.

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  • 2006
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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    7.037 2006 HD

    Kidnapped is an American television drama series from Sony Pictures Television which aired on NBC from September 20, 2006, to August 11, 2007. The...

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  • 2006
    imgS1 E8

    The Bedford Diaries

    The Bedford Diaries

    7 2006 HD

    At Bedford University, six students are brought together in seminar called Sex and the Human Condition.

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  • 1997
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    The View

    The View

    4.4 1997 HD

    ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...

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  • 1999
    imgS26 E8

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    7.9 1999 HD

    In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate...

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  • 2003
    imgS1 E9

    Mister Sterling

    Mister Sterling

    7.5 2003 HD

    Mister Sterling is an American television serial drama created by Lawrence O'Donnell that ran from January to March in 2003. It starred Josh Brolin...

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  • 2005
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    The Colbert Report

    The Colbert Report

    6.822 2005 HD

    The Colbert Report is an American satirical late night television program that airs Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. It stars political...

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  • 1993
    imgS7 E22

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    Homicide: Life on the Street

    8 1993 HD

    An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

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  • 2021
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    The Bite

    The Bite

    6.8 2021 HD

    During an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, two neighbors, Rachel and Lily, navigate life in quarantine....

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  • 1997
    imgS28 E39

    The View

    The View

    4.4 1997 HD

    ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...

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  • 2007
    imgS6 E13

    Private Practice

    Private Practice

    7.6 2007 HD

    Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier...

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  • 2009
    imgS7 E22

    The Good Wife

    The Good Wife

    7.6 2009 HD

    Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political...

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  • 2005
    imgS21 E8

    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey's Anatomy

    8.226 2005 HD

    Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

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  • 2014
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    Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

    5.5 2014 HD

    Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of...

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  • 2022
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    The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age

    7.9 2022 HD

    It’s 1882 and the Gilded Age is in full swing when Marian Brook, a young orphaned daughter of a Southern general, moves in with her rigidly...

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  • 2012
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    Doc McStuffins

    Doc McStuffins

    6.1 2012 HD

    A young African-American girl aspires to be a doctor like her mom.

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  • 1996
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    The Rosie O'Donnell Show

    The Rosie O'Donnell Show

    3.5 1996 HD

    The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six...

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  • 2012
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    Meisterwerke der Klassik

    Meisterwerke der Klassik

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2017
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    The Good Fight

    The Good Fight

    7.6 2017 HD

    Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a...

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  • 2017
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    The Good Fight

    The Good Fight

    7.6 2017 HD

    Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a...

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  • 2020
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    The Vote

    The Vote

    8 2020 HD

    One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by...

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  • 2020
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    Stars in the House

    Stars in the House

    1 2020 HD

    In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his...

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  • 2020
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    Stars in the House

    Stars in the House

    1 2020 HD

    In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his...

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  • 2014
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    BoJack Horseman

    BoJack Horseman

    8.6 2014 HD

    Meet the most beloved sitcom horse of the 90s - 20 years later. BoJack Horseman was the star of the hit TV show "Horsin' Around," but today he's...

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  • 2009
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    RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race

    7.5 2009 HD

    Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in...

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  • 1976
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    Live from Lincoln Center

    Live from Lincoln Center

    8.5 1976 HD

    Since premiering in 1976, the landmark series has sought to democratize the world of the performing arts by making Lincoln Center's historic concerts...

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  • 2020
    imgS3 E13

    Central Park

    Central Park

    6.3 2020 HD

    An animated musical comedy about the Tillermans, a family that lives in a castle in Central Park. Owen, the park manager, and Paige, his journalist...

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  • 1971
    imgS52 E3

    Great Performances

    Great Performances

    5.2 1971 HD

    The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

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  • 2006
    imgS1 E76

    The Megan Mullally Show

    The Megan Mullally Show

    4.2 2006 HD

    Two-time Emmy Award-winner Megan Mullally, coming off eight seasons as wisecracking socialite Karen Walker on NBC's "Will & Grace," moves into the...

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  • 2020
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    Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

    Bottomless Brunch at Colman's

    1 2020 HD

    Each week, Fear the Walking Dead's Colman Domingo will send a couple of friends all the mixings for a cocktail of choice, have them make something...

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