Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist because of her range and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald who has won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories her success has been evident both on Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys an impressive career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been named for the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. McDonald has also appeared 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). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she co-starred 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. After receiving the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She appears as a special guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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