Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the breadth of her talent and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from President Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth her voice is comfortable in Broadway as well as on the stage as in her film and television roles. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing been a busy recording and concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first time in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she received the 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 her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the amount of awards an actor has won. 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). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her role on The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got a fourth Emmy award for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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