Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top prize for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable like those on film and TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal training at The Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. In 2004, she received the fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. She also set the record of most awards won by one actor. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. In 2021, she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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