Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist due to her range of talents and the variety of her talent as a singer and actor. Her 2015 season saw her win a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was named by Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top award for artistic achievement in America to recognize artistic accomplishment as awarded by the president Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and a talent to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles on Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as those in films and TV. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing many facets of her career, including music producer and concert artist. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. The daughter of a musician family McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education in New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. The show she was a part of Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering total of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress for her role as the title in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She is the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting records for the highest number of successful wins for an actor, as well as becoming the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories. McDonald was also on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). She was the first actress to be awarded in every one of the acting categories. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which began to introduce McDonald to TV viewers for her performance as a dramatic actor. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed ABC/Disney remake of Annie at the end of 1999 McDonald had been a regular character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving their first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's drama series Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite, a pandemic drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount's The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which can be seen on HBO.

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