Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the president Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. In addition to her work in the theater, McDonald also has a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway history when she became the most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has received. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was 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 first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got a fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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