Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talent as an actress and a performer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's top 100 influential people and received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in the arts--from President Barack Obama. As a result of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales, she has found success on Broadway as well as at the opera and in both film and television. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. The year 2004, she took home her 4th Tony when she starred in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has won. The credits she has in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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