Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a singer, and actor. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films or on television. 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, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating McDonald won an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. Along with recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald got an fourth Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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