Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and versatility as a singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable like those on film and TV. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Along with making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. McDonald guest-stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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