Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as actor and singer. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given the National Medal of Arts - the top honor given in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway or in the opera stage are just as easy as those in films or on television. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has built a career that includes a significant concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for Carousel. In the subsequent four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first time in the leading actress category for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most popular Tony Award nominee. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald set a record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the TV audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her performance on The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning 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 got an fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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