Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award in America for excellence in art - from the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home in television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant performance and recording career. She performs regularly at the most prestigious performances. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first actor to be awarded the award for all four categories of acting. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her first Emmy award for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.






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