Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work in her career as an artist is unmatched. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for achievements in this field. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth, she is as much at home on Broadway and on the opera stage as in her TV and film roles. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at several of the most famous venues around the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. The year 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record for most awards in a competition category by an actor, she was also the first person ever to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following the first Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was a recurring character on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy award for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these characters (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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