Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. She has been a six-time record recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much as at ease on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination award in the category Leading Actress was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record for winning the most awards for acting, she became the first to have won all four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The following year, McDonald appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's period drama The Gilded Age.
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