Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unrivaled in her range of talents and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was selected as one the Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for her achievements in this field. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth her voice is at ease in Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and TV roles. Her career has been successful performing and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. A musically inclined family, McDonald spent her childhood living in Fresno California and received her classical training at the New York's Juilliard School. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an actress who was featured in a show for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first award in the category of leading actress, for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to make Broadway record-breaking history when she took home her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As well as setting the record for the most competitive wins by an actor she was also the first actor to be awarded distinctions across each of the four acting categories. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) the film that was the release of 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 the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's initial appearance as a TV actor came with the winner of the Peabody Award on the CBS series Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 TV remake from Disney/ABC of Annie and then in 2000 she had a recurring role on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to the network's television program in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The actress joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB program The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played an NBC program Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.

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