Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist because of the diversity and scope of her abilities as a performer and singer. She was the recipient of a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. The actress was recognized as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the highest award that is given in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as those in films or on television. Her professional career is a success both in recording and concerts and regularly performs at some of the most sought-after concert halls around the world. McDonald lived in Fresno California, where she was raised by an extended family that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. A year after her Juilliard, McDonald took home the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of the featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as In 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards, and she was the first in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. In 2014, she created Broadway historical records and was named an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth nomination in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance in the London's West End. She also set the record for most award wins by an actor. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's initial appearance as a acting on television was in the winner of the Peabody Award on the CBS series Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake Annie at the end of 1999 McDonald was a recurring character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her part as a character in her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. She joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the next season, she played an NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. In 2021 she co-starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. First appearing in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald was back in the character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ and received 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which can be seen on HBO.
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