Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and 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 accomplishments. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally at home in Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony by starring in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also performed in the West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. First actor awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. The credits she has in the theater includes 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's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald got the fourth Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appeared in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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