Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is an exceptional artist because of her range of talents and the variety of her abilities as a singer and actor. A record-breaking winner of seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the top 100 influential people and received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in film, television and Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer in the field of recording and concert performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical for Carousel and was presented at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she also won two Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in both the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his production Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012, she was awarded her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress for her title role performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the platform for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut performance in the London's West End. In addition to setting the record for the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive awards in each of the four acting categories. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to a television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say A look at the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed ABC/Disney remake of Annie at the end of 1999 she was an recurring role on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 due to her part for the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit featuring Emma Thompson returned to network television in 2003, starring on the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006 she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on series on TV by WB, The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald earned a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021 she co-starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age on HBO.






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