Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist in terms of the diversity and scope of her talents as a singer and actor. In 2015, she won an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was recognized as a result of Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received her the National Medal of Arts - the top award in America for excellence in art - from President Barack Obama. She is blessed with a beautiful soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally at home on Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her film and TV performances. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing been a busy recording and concert artist. She has a regular performance schedule at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born to a family with a strong musical background in California, Fresno. She received classical vocal instruction from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she was awarded her debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the subsequent four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) which gave her an overall total of three Tony Awards at the age of just 30. In 2004, she was nominated for a fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five year old daughter received her first Tony Award in the category of Leading Actress. In that performance, she played the title role for the musical The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for acting in Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for highest competitive wins by an actor she was also the first to win distinctions across the four categories of acting. The other plays she has appeared in comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut film, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and 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 viewers to her talents in her role as a dramatic performer. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and then in 2000 she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., featuring Josh Brolin. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an occasional actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a 4th Emmy award in recognition of her appearance in HBO's film-special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She earned three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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