Audra Mc Donald
Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. She was the recipient of an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious prize given in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much as at ease in Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her role in television and film. Her career has been successful performing and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top performances around the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. She was awarded her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. 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. The year 2004, she took home her fourth Tony when she starred in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she also was the first to make the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. In addition to making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she was an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she played a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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