Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest award in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is comfortable on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in role in television and film. In addition to her theatre performances, she also has been a busy recording and concert artist. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She received her fourth Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving category by an actor, she also became the first to be awarded 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 as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a recurring on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. Then she had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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