Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a unique performer in the range and variety of her abilities as a singer and actor. Audra McDonald who has won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for her achievements in this field. She is blessed with a beautiful soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner the actress is just as comfortable on Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her film and television performances. Apart from her theatre work, she continues to make a name for herself in the field of recording and concert performer who regularly appears at major venues across the globe. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she won her very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. The show she was a part of Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and the first time in the category of the leading actress for the role she played as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. She created Broadway the history books in 2014 as she became the most decorated Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also instrumental in launching her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her the six Tony Awards. Not only did she set an all-time record for the amount of honors an actor has earned, she was the first actor to take home all four categories. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) The 110th Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). The actress was the first to win awards across every one of the acting categories. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was with the award-winning Peabody Award CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake Annie In 1999 McDonald appeared as been a regular character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald earned her first Emmy for her part in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she made her return to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was in a regular role on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS drama, a legal-themed thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.






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