Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories, she has found success in Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as on television and film. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious places around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. She was awarded the fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award portraying 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. She also set the record of winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made 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 first introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy award for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in the year 2018, playing Season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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