Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unmatched. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. In 2015, she won a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art by President Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films as well as on TV. Her career has been successful performing and recording, appearing regularly at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances 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 30. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to set Broadway historical records when she won the sixth Tony Award 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. Along with setting the record in the contest in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. She joined The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she starred as an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021, she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in the year 2018, playing season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.






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