Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as actor and singer. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in film, television and Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. She was awarded the fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. When she won the sixth Tony Award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for most awards won by a single actor. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The following year, she received her first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she was in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. McDonald guest-stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.
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