Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is an exceptional artist because of her versatility and range of her abilities as a performer and singer. Her 2015 season saw her win an unprecedented Six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was selected in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence as awarded by the president Barack Obama. With an unbeatable soprano beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway or at the opera have the same aplomb like those on film as well as on TV. She is an accomplished performer in concert and recording and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family located in Fresno California. Her classical singing education at the Juilliard School of New York. The following year, after graduation, she received her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Performer in musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years she received two additional Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. The show she was a part of Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to establish Broadway history when she was awarded the sixth Tony Award acting in Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records for the amount of Tony Awards an actor has received, she also became the first actor to be awarded in the four categories. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She was the very first actress to be awarded in every one of the acting categories. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that began to introduce McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC version of Annie at the end of 1999 McDonald appeared as a recurring character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who won the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit starring Emma Thompson, was seen on television in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined in the ensemble of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated to win a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance was recognized with three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.






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