Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald stands out as a truly unique performer in her range of talents and the variety of her talents as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the 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. A dazzling soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling the actress is just as at ease on Broadway and the opera stage as she is in films and television characters. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing been a busy musician and recording artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born to a family with a strong musical background in California, Fresno. She underwent classical vocal instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she also won two Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of the Broadway performances of the world premiere of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his production Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for a fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five year old daughter won her first Tony in the Leading Actress category when she was the main character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The actress also broke the record for the most award wins by an actor. McDonald's other theater credits 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 film, 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 introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her appeared alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Additionally, she was a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. Following the first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The subsequent year, she was in a regular role on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned her 4th Emmy nomination in her appearance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. In 2021 she co-starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appears in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.






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