Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both actor and singer. The winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth, she is as much as at ease on Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in TV and film roles. Apart from performing in theater, McDonald also has an impressive career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. She was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. The 6th Tony award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. She also set the record for the most awards won by an actor. Her other credits for theater 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 show, 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) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.






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