Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and her versatility as a singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles on Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films as well as on TV. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has an impressive profession as a recording and concert artist. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as 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 title role performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017 she performed in the West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. As well as setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first actor to be awarded honors in all four acting categories. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The following year, she received her debut Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald received an 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.
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