Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, as well as an actor. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally comfortable on Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in TV and film roles. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at top venues. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony by starring on stage in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. As well as making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role and McDonald returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The following year, McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.
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