Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. 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. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. As a result of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability to tell dramatic stories She has had success both on Broadway and in the opera as well as for television and film. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing an active career as a musician and recording artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. As the first actress to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald set a record for the amount of awards an actor has won. Her credits in the theatre includes 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 on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She appears as a special appearance in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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