Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, and actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for telling dramatic truths, she is as much comfortable in Broadway and the opera stage as in her film or television role. She is an accomplished performer in concert and recording frequently appearing at of the top places around the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. When she attended the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an opera singer. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Through the course of four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her work of The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for a fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five year old daughter won her first Tony in the category of Leading Actress. In that performance, she portrayed the lead role for the musical The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to establish Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition, she set the record for most prizes won by an actor. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation from 1921 & Everything That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to TV viewers as a dramatic actress. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 TV remake from Disney/ABC of Annie and then in 2000 she was a frequent guest in NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who won an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit featuring Emma Thompson was seen on television in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald got a fourth Emmy nomination for her appearance in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The actress starred 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. First appearing as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009, on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald was back in her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. In the present, she's acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.

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