Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and versatility as a singer and actor. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for achievements in this field. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth her voice is as at ease in Broadway and on the opera stage as in her role in television and film. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys an impressive profession as a music and concert performer. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first award in the category of lead actress for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's the same role she played for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. She also set the record for the winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. Her other credits for theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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