Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unmatched. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The 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 the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb like those on film and TV. Her career has been successful performing and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first time in the category of leading actress for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. Along with setting the record as the most awards in a competition area by an actor she was also the first person ever to win awards for the four acting categories. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her role as a character in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed 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. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.
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