Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the breadth and versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. She was the recipient of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of the year 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. She is equally at home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys an impressive profession as a recording and concert artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. She won the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first in the category of leading actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on the London's West End. In addition to setting a record to win the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first person to win the four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded an 4th Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The following year, McDonald was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's period drama The Gilded Age.






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