Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist because of the diversity and scope of her talents as an actor and singer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious honor for achievements within the field--from the President Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way and truth, her performances in Broadway or at the opera are as comfortable with roles in film as well as on TV. She has a successful career in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most sought-after performances around the globe. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. Her classical singing training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel and was presented at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her work on both the Broadway performances of the world premiere of Terrence McNally's Play Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) giving her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time award in the category of lead actress for her title role performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to establish Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This character also gave the stage for Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. She also set the record for most prizes won by an actor. Her theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) the latter of which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premier show, which is Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) 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. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, which was directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to the network's television program in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The subsequent year, she was in a regular role on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald was nominated to win a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's civil comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a regular in the season premiere of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.






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