Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is second to none. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much as at ease in Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. In addition to her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at top performances. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she received the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. She was awarded the fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record as the most wins in a competitive category for an actor, she became the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. Her credits in the theatre are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first role as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' Early 100 Years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she played a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her performance in her role in 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-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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