Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. 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 -the nation's most prestigious award to recognize achievements in the field. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth, she is as much at home on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. She has a successful career performing and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top places around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. She received her fourth Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for having the most awards received by an actor. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is a featured guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.

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