Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. In 2015, she won record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. Due to her beautiful tone, and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales, she has found success on Broadway and at the opera and on television and film. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel for 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 play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first award in the leading actress category for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in which she won the most awards for acting, she became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. Her other credits for theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing Season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.






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