Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety as a singer, as well as an actor. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. Born into a musical family McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to make Broadway historical records when she won the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first person to receive the award for all four categories of acting. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received the first Emmy for her role as a character in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021, she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018, as Season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She appears as a special guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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