Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is second to none. She has won the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. As the winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles on Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies or on television. As well as performing on stage, she has built a career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She regularly performs at world-class places. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. Along with setting the record in the competition for winning the most awards for actor, she was the first person to win the four categories of acting. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including 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 d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's debut as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. McDonald guest-stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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