Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a singular performer in her versatility and range of her talents as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald, who won 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 most prestigious honor bestowed to Americans for her achievements in this field. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent for telling dramatic truths She is equally comfortable on Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in film and TV role. Her professional career is a success both in recording and concerts frequently appearing at of the most famous performances around the globe. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Through the next four-year period She was honored with two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) which gave her the total 3 Tony Awards at the age of just 30. The actress won her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012, she received five Tony Awards, and she was the first one in the category leading actress, for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. As well as setting records for the amount of honors an actor has won, she was also the first actor to take home each of the four categories. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) Twelfth Nacht (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation that debuted in 1921 and all That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to television viewers as a dramatic actress in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake Annie In 1999 McDonald had the role of a regular in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 due to her part for the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit starring Emma Thompson, was back on network TV in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order crime thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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