Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched with the variety and breadth of her talents as a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was selected as one the The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize excellence in the field. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability for making truth come alive and truth, her performances on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as those in films and TV. Her career has been successful both in recording and concerts performing regularly in some of the top places around the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in California, Fresno. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from the Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Lead Actress in Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. She received her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards, and she was the first time in the category of the leading actress for the role she played in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received the sixth Tony Award for her performance in Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the platform for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut on London's West End. In addition, she set the record of most prizes won by an actor. Other credits in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to a television audience as a dramatic actress 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 highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she appeared in a variety of roles on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy due to her character as a character in The HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she made her return to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an occasional actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She earned three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.

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