Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. Due to her stunning soprano's tone and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories, she has found success on Broadway and at the opera as well as in both film and television. Apart from her theater work, she has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating McDonald won an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Not only did she set the record as the most awards in a competition category by an actor, she was also the first actor to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth night (2009). McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next role was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

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