Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and versatility as a singer and actor. Audra McDonald, who won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times 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. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera are as comfortable like those on film and TV. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she was awarded her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the four following years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for having the most awards received by one actor. Other credits in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked 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 Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her part on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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