Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talent as a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award to recognize achievements in the field. With a stunning soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth, she is as much as at ease in Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her role in television and film. Alongside performing on stage, she has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious performances. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. A year after graduating she received her first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to set Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for most awards in a competition area by an actor she was also the first actor to be awarded in each of the four types of acting. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. In 2021, she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic comedy The Gilded Age.






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