Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and actor. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from the President Barack Obama. As a result of her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales, she has found success on Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She won his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first time in the category of leading actress due to her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Along with setting the record as the most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she also became the first person ever to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 to star in the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress also appeared in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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