Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled with the variety and breadth of her work as an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized 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. Blessed with a luminous soprano voice and an unparalleled talent to tell the truth her voice is at home on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and TV role. She has a successful career in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most famous performances around the globe. McDonald was born in a musical family in Fresno, CA. Her classical singing education at The Juilliard School of New York. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from the Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years she received two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. She won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first award in the category of lead actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer with the sixth Tony Award for her performance in Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut performance in London's West End. As well as setting records for the amount of Tony Awards an actor has been awarded, she is the first ever to be awarded in every category. McDonald's other theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) the film that was Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the well-received 1999 TV remake from Disney/ABC of Annie and then in 2000 she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006 she was part of the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had been a frequent guest on the NBC popular television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald was back in the part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a regular in the season premiere of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.

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