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 named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as those in films or on television. As well as her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at world-class performances. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Along with setting the record as the most awards in a competition area by an actor she also became the first actor to win awards for each of the four types of acting. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's debut as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. The following year, she received her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The actress became a character on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is also a appearance on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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