Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of 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. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films as well as on TV. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress for her title role performance for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. The first actor to be recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has received. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first appeared on television as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Her next role was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. Following the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018. She reprised her roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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