Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. The winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling She is equally as at ease on Broadway and on the opera stage as in her role in television and film. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing been a busy recording and concert artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She was awarded 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 won five Tonys and her first time in the leading actress category for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record in the contest to win the most awards by an acting, she became the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. The next time she appeared on television was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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