Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is at home on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's the same role she played in her 2017 West End London debut for which she was considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving area by an actor she also became the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including 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 debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald received the first Emmy for her part in her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. McDonald became a character on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she played an recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald received the 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her role (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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