Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as actor and singer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award in America in recognition of artistic excellence by President Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as the roles in movies or on television. In addition to her work in the theatre, she has a thriving career as a recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first award in the category of lead actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The actress made Broadway history as she became the highest famous Tony Award winner. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Not only did she set the record as the most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she was also the first person ever to be awarded in all four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in the year 2018, playing season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






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