Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as actor and singer. Audra McDonald, who won 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 -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much as at ease in Broadway as well as on the stage as in her role in television and film. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at many of the top places around the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after graduating she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first award in the category of leading actress due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. The first actor to be recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her performance in The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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