Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talents as actor and singer. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded the National Medal of Arts - the top honor for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth She is equally at home in Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her TV and film roles. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her title role performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for the most awards won by an actor. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order 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 actress also appeared on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.
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