Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her talent as actor and singer. In 2015, she won record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top prize for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence by the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth She is equally as at ease in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in film and television roles. In addition to her work in the theatre, she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating, she won her debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. Her next role was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. Following her debut Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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