Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as a singer and an actor. Record-breaking six times recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy like those on film or on television. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has won. 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 the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.
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