Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a singer, as well as an actor. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize in America for artistic achievement - from the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling She is equally at home on Broadway and the opera stage as in her film and television roles. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys established a successful career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most awards in a competition category by an actor, she also became the first actor to receive awards in 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: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated in the three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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