Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unmatched. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. Due to her beautiful tone, and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories She has had success both on Broadway and at the opera as well as in both film and television. Her career has been successful performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top performances around the world. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. Aside from setting a record for winning the most awards by an acting, she became the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was awarded the fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

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