Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. Due to her stunning soprano's tone and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident on Broadway and in the opera as well as on television and film. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on performances in the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress for her title role performance for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first to win awards in all four acting categories. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. Her next role was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 to star in the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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