Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and versatility as a singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident in Broadway and in the opera, as well as in both film and television. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training at The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the four following years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony in addition to her first award in the Leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has received. Her other credits for theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked 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 the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. In 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018, as season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress is a featured character for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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