Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald, the winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the most prestigious honor bestowed to Americans for her achievements in this field. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth, her roles on Broadway as well as in opera can be as welcoming as the roles in movies and TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at major venues across the globe. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan with musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an opera singer. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the top performance of an actress who was featured in a show for Carousel and was presented at Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of both the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) creating the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, her first time in the category of lead actress for her part of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to establish Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As well as setting a record in the number of honors an actor has received, she also became the first actor to be awarded in each of the four categories. The other plays she has appeared in include 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 was first introduced to the 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 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and then in 2000 she was a frequent guest on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her role in"The Wit," the HBO versions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. She joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she was an NBC program Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. In 2021, she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. Presently, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.

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