Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much at home in Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her role in television and film. Apart from performing in theater, McDonald also has a thriving career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she won the debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. In the year she received her Sixth Tony in the year 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017 she made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. As well as setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits 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 in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. In 2021, she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.






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