Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also received the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth, her roles on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as those in films or on television. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has established a successful career which is a major recording and concert career. She performs regularly 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 her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record for most awards in a competition category by an actor, she became the first person ever to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. Her next role was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald received the first Emmy for her role in her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

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