Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist due to her versatility and range of her talents as an actress and a vocalist. In 2015, she won a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. She was also acknowledged in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor given in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. In addition to her theatre performance, she enjoys worked as a musician and recording artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by an extended family that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years she received two additional Tony Awards for the category of prominent actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony in the role of Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category in the role of her lead 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 playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This character also gave the stage to make Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for the most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first actor to be awarded awards in each of the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). She was the very first actress to receive awards in each of the four acting categories. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The 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 highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she appeared in a variety of roles in NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to the network's television program in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006 she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on series on TV by WB, The Bedford Diaries and over her next season, she appeared in the role of a regular on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance was recognized with three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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