Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. She was the recipient of a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. The actress was named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award that is given in America for artistic achievement by the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano voice and an unparalleled talent to tell the truth She is equally at home on Broadway and the opera stage as she is in films and television performances. Apart from her theatre work, she continues to make a name for herself as a recording artist, regularly performing at top venues around the globe. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received training from the Juilliard School of New York. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for her performance in Carousel. After four years she received two additional Tony Awards for the category of the featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. She won her fourth Tony in the role of Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012, she was awarded the fifth time and first time award in the category of lead actress for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She is the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award acting in Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As well as setting the record for the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first to win distinctions across each of the four acting categories. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) The 110th Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). The actress was the first to be awarded in all four acting categories. McDonald's debut as a dramatic acting on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and then in 2000 she appeared in a variety of roles on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit with Emma Thompson was back on network TV in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is directed by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald starred on the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. She was a part of Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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