Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as an actor and singer. Her 2015 season saw her win an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was named as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the highest award that is given in America to recognize artistic accomplishment - from the president Barack Obama. She has a home on screen, in television and Broadway. Her beautiful soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. In addition to her theatre work, she has many facets of her career, including musician and recording artist. She has a regular performance schedule in some of the top venues around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education in New York's Juilliard School. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. After four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as In 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards, and she was the first award in the category of leading actress for her part as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. She is the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to establish Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award acting in Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting an all-time record for the amount of awards an actor received, she also became the first person ever to win every category. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) Twelfth Nacht (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to a television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 TV remake from Disney/ABC of Annie and, in 2000, had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald earned her first Emmy for her performance on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., featuring Josh Brolin. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald starred on the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she appeared as in a regular role on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got a 4th Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first 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 series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently in the role of a guest star on Julian Fellowes's historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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