Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both acting and singing. In 2015, she was awarded an all-time record of Six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was recognized by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award that is given in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a knack to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera stage are just as comfortable with roles in film and TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she continues to make a name for herself as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. McDonald was born into a musically inclined household located in Fresno California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. A year after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The next four years she won two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her work in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And the year 2012 was when her five-year-old daughter took home her first Tony in the category of Leading Actress. In that performance, she was the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway historical records and was named one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth nomination for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut performance in the London's West End. In addition to setting the record for the most successful wins for an actor, she also became the first actor to be awarded the award in the four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation from 1921 along with All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her part in The HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she made her return to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The subsequent year, she was an occasional actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now named Liz Reddick) as a Season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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