Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, as well as an actor. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in the arts--from President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is at home in Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in film and television roles. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also established a successful career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received the fourth Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway historical records when she won the sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Not only did she set the record as the most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she became the first person ever to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald was awarded an fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. In 2021, she appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

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