Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and versatility as an actor and singer. The winner of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies as well as on TV. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing many a career in recording and concert artist. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the four following years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. First actor given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the number of awards an actor has been awarded. Her credits in the theatre are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. Her next role was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Award for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic drama The Gilded Age.
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