Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a unique artist because of her range of talents and the variety of her abilities as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of 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. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the most prestigious honor bestowed to Americans for excellence in this area. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a knack to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera stage are just as comfortable with roles in film as well as on TV. She is an accomplished performer in concert and recording frequently appearing at of the top concert halls around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she received her first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Through the following four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a lead actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), resulting in the total 3 Tony Awards at the age of just 30. In 2004 she was in the running for a fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. And the year 2012 was when her five-year-old daughter took home her first Tony award in the category of Lead Actress. she played the title character as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway historical records and was named one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 premiere in London's West End. As well as setting a record in the number of Tony Awards an actor has received, she also became the first actor to win each of the four categories. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). The actress was the first to win awards across each of the four acting categories. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. As of 1999, McDonald appeared with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald earned her first Emmy due to her character of her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. She joined the WB program The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. In the next season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on the NBC program Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy nomination in her appearance in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, in 2016. In 2021, she appeared 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 drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount's The Good Fight. She earned three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She is currently in the role of a guest star on Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age on HBO.






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