Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. A record six-time winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as those in films or on television. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Along with setting the record in the competition to win the most awards for actor, she was the first person to win the four categories of acting. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' Early 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. In 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.






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