Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. As the winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. Due to her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success on Broadway and in the opera as well as for television and film. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys an impressive career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. After graduating, she won the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony by starring on stage in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. She created Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most famous Tony Award winner. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. First actor given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has won. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made 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 Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character and McDonald returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.

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