Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and actor. Audra McDonald, who 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. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth, she is as much comfortable on Broadway and the opera stage as in her film and television roles. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys a thriving career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. The first actor to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. Her other credits for 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 Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her performance on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a 4th Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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