Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a singer, as well as an actor. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth Her roles in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb as those in films and TV. Alongside her stage performances, she also has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 as she became the highest famous Tony Award winner. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Also, she set the record for the winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. McDonald's credits in theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald first appeared on television as a character actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her part in the HBO adaptation 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-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald got a 4th Emmy nomination for her part in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role appeared in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018, as season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is a featured character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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