Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and her versatility as an actor and singer. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent for dramatic truth-telling her voice is as at ease on Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her film and television roles. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. She won her fourth Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. When she won the sixth Tony Award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the competition in which she won the most awards for actor, she was the first person to win the four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along 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 with Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received an fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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