Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. In 2015, she was awarded 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 individuals and received with the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth Her roles in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies and TV. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. One year after graduation McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first time in the category of lead actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's the same role she played for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category for an actor, she also became the first to win awards for each of the four types of acting. Her other credits for theater includes 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 show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. Then she had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic drama The Gilded Age.
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