Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talent as a singer and an actor. The winner of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth, she is as much at home in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in role in television and film. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in musician and recording artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training at The Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she won her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. First actor recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. Her next role was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. Then she had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.
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