Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is second to none. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, 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 -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable like those on film and TV. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious performances around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played 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 won the first award in the leading actor category. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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