Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and actor. As the winner of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories her success has been evident on Broadway and at the opera and on television and film. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant recording and concert career. She frequently performs in top venues. McDonald was born into a musical family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training at The Juilliard School of New York. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first time in the category of lead actress due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has won. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. Her next appearance was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.






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