Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is an exceptional performer in the diversity and scope of her skills as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of an all-time record of Six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was selected in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the top award for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano voice and an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth-telling the actress is just as at home in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in film and television role. Her career has been successful in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most famous places around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. When she attended the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical called Carousel and was presented at Lincoln Center Theater. Through the time following the actress was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress as a lead actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), resulting in a total of 3 Tony Awards at the age of only thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012, she was awarded the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her performance in Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. Along with setting records in terms of the number of awards an actor earned, she was the first person ever to have won each of the four categories. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) The Twelfth Night was 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) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that began to introduce McDonald to TV viewers in her role as a dramatic performer. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and then in 2000 she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who won the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role for the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson returned to network television in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is directed by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played one of the characters on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on the spread of a disease, and produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appears in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.






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