Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as a performer is second to none. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth, her roles in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies as well as on TV. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that includes a significant recording and concert career. She performs regularly at top venues. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She won her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. The actress made Broadway history when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with making history with the most competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first actor to be awarded the award for all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), 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's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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