Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both an actor and singer. Audra McDonald who has won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. Her talents are equally at home on screen, in television as well as Broadway. Her beautiful soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Apart from her theatre work, she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. Born into a musical family McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an actress who was featured in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards for the category of the featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. The actress won her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, her first time in the category of leading actress, for her role of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She created Broadway history when she became the most decorated Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also instrumental in launching the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her the six Tony Awards. In addition to setting the record for the most successful wins for an actor, she also became the first to win distinctions across all four acting categories. Her other credits for theater are 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 of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor came with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and then in 2000 she played a regular role on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who won an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit starring Emma Thompson, was back on network TV in 2003, starring on the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the next season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald got a fourth Emmy nomination in her part in HBO's film-special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress also appears in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.






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