Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unrivaled in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was selected as one 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 excellence in the field. A dazzling soprano voice and an unparalleled talent to tell the truth her voice is at home in Broadway as well as on the stage as she is in films and television performances. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing been a busy singer and concert performer. She has a regular performance schedule at the most prestigious venues in the world. The daughter of a musician family McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from the Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Lead Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years she won two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances during both the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's Play Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) giving her an incredible total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004 she was in the running for a fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And the year 2012 was when her five-year-old daughter took home her first Tony award in the category of Lead Actress. she portrayed the lead role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway record-breaking history when she took home her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for most successful wins for an actor, she was also the first person to receive distinctions across all four acting categories. Her other credits for theater are 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, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation from 1921 along with All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to a television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say:"The Delany Sisters first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald received her first Emmy for her part on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television, but this time she was in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., featuring Josh Brolin. She joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over her next season, she appeared in the role of a regular on NBC's drama series Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald began her role as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance was recognized with three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appears in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.

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