Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both actor and singer. The winner of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 people who are influential in 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth She is equally at home in Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her role in television and film. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating, she was awarded her debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. The year 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. She also set the record for most awards won by an actor. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. 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 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.
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