Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled by her variety and breadth as a singer, and an actor. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal for Arts --America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from the President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable with television, film as well as Broadway. Her beautiful soprano makes her a natural on the stage. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing many facets of her career, including singer and concert performer. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in California, Fresno. She received classical vocal education at the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she took home the first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Through the course of four years she won two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) creating an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004 she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five year old daughter received her first Tony in the category of Lead Actress. she portrayed the lead role for the musical The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway history in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill which was the part which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. She also set the record for the most prizes won by an actor. Her other credits for theater comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) the film that was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to TV viewers as a dramatic actor. The year 1999 saw her appeared with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance as a character in her role in the HBO versions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., featuring Josh Brolin. She joined in the ensemble of the series on TV by WB, The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played been a frequent guest on the NBC television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for her fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. In 2021, she appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite, a pandemic drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS drama, a legal-themed thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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