Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her artistry as both actor and singer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for achievements in this field. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident both on Broadway and in the opera as well as on television and film. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys established a successful career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. One year after graduation, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on The Broadway productions 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 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. Also, she set the record for most awards won by a single actor. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on 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 an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got the fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's special film of 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 produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in Three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.

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