Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a singer, and performer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in top performances. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first time in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As well as recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, as well as becoming the first person to receive honors across all four categories. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The following year, she received her first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. Then she had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. In the present, she is guest on Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.






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