Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistic talent is unparalleled by her variety and breadth as a vocalist, and an actor. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. The actress was recognized by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the highest award for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable on screen, in television and Broadway. Her beautiful soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing worked as a singer and concert performer. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a large family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an actress who was featured in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her work during both the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an incredible total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She received her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she received five Tonys, her first one in the category lead actress for her part as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actress, she was able to set Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award acting in Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform to make Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Additionally, she set the record for highest performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first person to receive awards in the four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first actress to be awarded in every one of the acting categories. McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say"The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the well-received 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and in 2000 she appeared in a variety of roles on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving the first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, which was directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. She joined in the ensemble of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over her next season, she appeared in been a frequent guest on the NBC drama series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. In 2021 she co-starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She earned three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.






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