Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a unique artist due to her versatility and range of her abilities as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as An Emmy Award in 2015 she was named as one of the top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal for Arts --America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a gift for making truth come alive Her roles in Broadway or at the opera are as comfortable with roles in film or on television. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career in the field of recording and concert artist, regularly performing at top venues around the globe. Born into a musical family McDonald spent her childhood in Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education at the New York's Juilliard School. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a show for Carousel and was presented at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she also won two Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of both the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's Play Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for a fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five year old daughter received her first Tony for her performance in the Leading Actress category when she was the main character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actress, she was able to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The actress also broke the record for most award wins by an 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 from 1921 along with All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which began to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she appeared in a variety of roles on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance as a character in an HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which starred Emma Thompson was seen again on TV networks in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film is directed by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She joined the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was one of the characters on NBC's program Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award due to her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. In 2021, she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. Having 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 took on her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a regular in the season premiere of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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