Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work in her career as an artist is unmatched. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, who won 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. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. As a result of her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident on Broadway as well as at the opera and for television and film. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys an impressive career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she won the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) giving her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She took home her 4th Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony, and also her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on the London's West End. In addition to setting a record in which she won the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. Her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's 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 acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is a featured character in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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