Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistic talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. Her 2015 season saw her win an all-time record of Six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was recognized in Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award in America for excellence in art as awarded by President Barack Obama. With an unbeatable soprano beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as those in films and TV. Her professional career is a success in concert and recording frequently appearing at of the most famous performances around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan with musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. The following year, after graduation, she won her very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Performer in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next 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 as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she received five Tonys and her first in the category of the leading actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She made Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer with her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award nomination 2017 debut performance in London's West End. She also set the record of most awards won by an actor. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) The 110th Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). The actress was the first to receive awards in the four categories of acting. McDonald was first introduced to television viewers as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. appeared with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Additionally, she was an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role as a character in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the series on TV by WB, The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's drama series Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination for her appearance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order crime thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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