Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a unique artist because of her range of talents and the variety of her abilities as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times 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 achievements in this field. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth, her roles on Broadway or the opera stage are just as comfortable with roles in film and TV. As well as her theatrical work, she has many facets of her career, including music producer and concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by an extended family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an opera singer. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from the Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. The show she was a part of Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony in the role of Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won five awards, including her first-ever in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the top-recognized Tony Award-winning performer. She played Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her the six Tony Awards. As well as setting the record for the most awards won by actors in competition, she became the first person to receive the award in the four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and then in 2000 she played a regular role on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who won an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 due to her part for the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which starred Emma Thompson returned to network television in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is directed by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. First appearing in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a Season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ and received 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. In the present, she's appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.






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