Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald stands out as a truly unique artist because of the range and variety of her skills as an actor and singer. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Times magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from President Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched elegance and a talent of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies and TV. Alongside her stage performance, she enjoys worked as a singer and concert performer. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her training in classical singing at New York's Juilliard School. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the top performance of a Featured actress in a show for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she won two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of both the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She won her fourth Tony in the role of Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received the sixth Tony Award for her performance in Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut performance in the London's West End. As well as setting an all-time record for the amount of honors an actor has received, she also became the first ever to be awarded in all four categories. Some of her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) Twelfth Nacht (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premier show, which is Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first role as a dramatic acting on television was in the award-winning Peabody Award CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie In 1999 she was an recurring role in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her first Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film version 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 for the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. She joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over her next season, she appeared in the role of a regular on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for her fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the spread of a disease, and produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance was recognized with three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.






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