Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her work as a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was selected as one the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize excellence in the field. She has a home on screen, in television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Alongside her stage work, she has been a busy recording and concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she took home her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Performer in musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the subsequent four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) which gave her the total 3 Tony Awards at the age of just thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for a fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five-year old daughter received her first Tony Award in the category of Leading Actress when she played the title character for the musical The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records in terms of the number of awards an actor has received, she also became the first ever to have won all four categories. The other plays she has appeared in include 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, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to a television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say A look at the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC version of Annie at the end of 1999 McDonald was a recurring character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance as a character in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she made her return to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. First appearing in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a regular on the season of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She is currently in the role of a guest star on Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age on HBO.

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