Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald stands out as a truly unique artist in terms of her versatility and range of her abilities as a singer and actor. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from President Barack Obama. She is blessed with a beautiful soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth her voice is at ease on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in film or television roles. In addition to her work in the theatre, she has a thriving career as a recording artist, regularly performing at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. Her classical singing education at The Juilliard School of New York. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Lead Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. The show she was a part of Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won five awards, including her first-ever for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She is the Tony Awards' most decorated actress, she was able to create Broadway record-breaking history when she took home the sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor she became the first person to receive honors in the four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921, and All That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first actress to be awarded in every one of the acting categories. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber along with other stars in the well-received Disney/ABC remake Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald earned her first Emmy due to her character on The HBO versions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. She joined the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she appeared as a recurring character on NBC's TV show 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 co-starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the performance. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age on HBO.






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