Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist because of her range and variety of her talent as a performer and song writer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given with the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize given in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by President Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth her voice is as at ease on Broadway as well as on the stage as in her TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also an impressive career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Along with making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first actor to be awarded awards for all four categories of acting. Her other credits for theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was 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 the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her television debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 to star in the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018as the Season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.






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