Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unmatched. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. As well as performing on stage, she has established a successful career which includes a significant recording and concert career. She frequently performs in top places. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of 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. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. Her next role was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. After receiving the first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald received a 4th Emmy award for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role appeared on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018, as season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, 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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