Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and versatility as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given with the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor in America for artistic achievement - from the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth, she is as much at home in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in role in television and film. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys established a successful profession as a music and concert performer. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical called Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her title role performance for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Also, she set the record for having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded 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 with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed 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 got three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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