Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Apart from her theater performances, she also has been a busy singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on London's West End. The actress also broke the record of having the most awards received by one actor. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. After receiving her first Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her role (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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