Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistic talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. Her work was recognized by Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received her the National Medal of Arts - the highest award given in America to recognize artistic accomplishment as awarded by the president Barack Obama. She is blessed with a beautiful soprano voice and an unparalleled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner the actress is just as comfortable in Broadway and on the opera stage as she is in films and TV role. Her professional career is a success performing and recording and regularly performs at some of the most famous places around the world. McDonald was born to a family with a strong musical background in California, Fresno. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. A year after her Juilliard, McDonald took home the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. In 2004 she was in the running for a fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five-year old daughter won her first Tony award in the Leading Actress category when she played the title role of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She is the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to establish Broadway record-breaking history when she took home her sixth Tony Award for the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This character also gave the stage to make Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Additionally, she set the record for the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she became the first person to receive honors in all four acting categories. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation from 1921 along with All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that began to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents in her role as a dramatic performer. The year 1999 saw her appeared alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regular roles in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her performance on The HBO versions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she starred as an NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald earned her 4th Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.

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