Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and her versatility as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's top 100 influential people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from President Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. As well as her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which is a major concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in top places. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal training from the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating she was awarded the debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category for an actor, she also became the first person ever to receive awards in all four categories of acting. The credits she has in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.
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