Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is unmatched. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from President Barack Obama. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories She has had success both on Broadway as well as at the opera as well as on television and film. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at many of the top performances around the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music in the Juilliard School, New York. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for Carousel. In the four following years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. She received her 4th Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first actor to be awarded honors across all four categories. Other credits in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the 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). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her performance as a character in her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. McDonald was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played an recurring role on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald got an 4th Emmy award for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is a featured character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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