Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and performer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was selected as one the The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the most prestigious honor bestowed to Americans for excellence in this area. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Her professional career is a success in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious performances around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan with musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. A year after graduating she won her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four-year period the actress was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles of Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) that gave her the total 3 Tony Awards at the age at just thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony in the role of Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress for her title role performance for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Along with setting records for the amount of honors an actor has won, she was also the first actor to be awarded in every category. Other credits in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation from 1921 along with All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake Annie at the end of 1999 McDonald appeared as been a regular character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit starring Emma Thompson, was seen on television in 2003, starring on the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, which was a film special. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the spread of a disease, and produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's civil show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ and received three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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