Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talents as an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. She is equally at home in television, film as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on 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 was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a basis for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. Not only did she set records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving category by an actor, she was also the first actor to be awarded in all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. After receiving her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She is also a character for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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