Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. The winner of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in the year 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film or on television. Apart from her theater work, she has many a career in singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. 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 took home five Tony Awards and was the first in the leading actress category due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. The actress also broke the record for winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. Her other credits for theater include 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 show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her television debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received the 4th Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for the three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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