Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as a singer and an actor. She has been a six-time record recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much as at ease in Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in TV and film roles. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began her training in classical singing at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. The year 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. The first actor to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing Season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.
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