Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles on Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy as those in films or on television. Apart from her theater performances, she also has been a busy musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. In addition to setting the record for most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she was also the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed 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 starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the role (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.

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