Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unrivaled in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. In 2015, she won record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. Her work was recognized in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award that is given in America to recognize artistic accomplishment by President Barack Obama. A dazzling soprano, and an unrivalled talent for telling dramatic truths her voice is at ease in Broadway as well as on the stage as in her film or television role. In addition to her theatre performances, she also has an active career as a music producer and concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was born to a family with a strong musical background in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. The following year, after graduation, she won her very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004 she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And the year 2012 was when her five-year-old daughter won her first Tony in the Leading Actress category when she portrayed the lead role of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This character also gave the stage for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first to win distinctions across every category of acting. The other plays she has appeared in include 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 from 1921 along with All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. As of 1999, McDonald co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald earned her first Emmy for her performance in"The Wit," the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald was back in her character (now called 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 guest stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.






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