Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious prize in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by President Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys established a successful career as an international recording and concert artist. 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 an classical vocalist. One year after graduation, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway history as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got an fourth Emmy award for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.

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