Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched with the variety and breadth of her talent as an actor and singer. Her 2015 season saw her win an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. The actress was selected by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the top award in America in recognition of artistic excellence as awarded by President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano voice and an unparalleled talent to tell the truth her voice is at home on Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in film and television performances. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the globe. McDonald was born into a musically inclined household in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the top performance of an actress who was featured in a show for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she also won two Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her work during performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) making an incredible total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. Her role was that of A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five year old daughter received her first Tony in the Leading Actress category when she portrayed the lead role of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She is the Tony Awards' most decorated actress, she was able to make Broadway record-breaking history when she took home the sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Also, she broke the record for the most awards won by an actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) the latter of which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say"The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC version of Annie during 1999 she was the role of a regular on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald earned 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 made her return to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., featuring Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed comedy co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the role (now called Liz Reddick) as a regular in the season premiere of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. In the present, she's appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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