Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talent as actor and singer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor given in America for excellence in art by President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much at home in Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in film and television roles. She has a successful career in concert and recording and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious performances around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the four following years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances 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. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category for her title role performance for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. First actor recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got the fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.






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