Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and actor. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales She has had success in Broadway and in the opera, as well as in both film and television. She is a renowned performer performing and recording performing regularly in several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. In 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. In addition to setting the record for most awards in a competition area by an actor she became the first to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.

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