Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a vocalist, as well as an actor. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of 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. Due to her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident both on Broadway and in the opera and in both film and television. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys an impressive career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th 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. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. As well as making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first actor to be awarded awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but 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 first appeared on television as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.

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