Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and versatility as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 influential people in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling her voice is as at ease in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in role in television and film. In addition to performing on stage, she has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at world-class venues. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training from the Juilliard School of New York. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017 she was the first to make the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the competition to win the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her first Emmy for her part on her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. She was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She is also a guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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