Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a singer, as well as an actor. A record-breaking winner of six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's most prestigious award for excellence in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. Her talents are equally at home with television, film as well as Broadway. Her beautiful soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Apart from her theatre work, she is also a prominent performer as a recording and concert artist, regularly performing at major venues across the globe. McDonald was born to a family with a strong musical background in Fresno, CA. Her classical singing instruction from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a show for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Through the course of four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance during The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's Play Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) creating an incredible total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. And the year 2012 was when her five-year-old daughter took home her first Tony for her performance in the category of Lead Actress. she portrayed the lead role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to create Broadway record-breaking history when she took home her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition, she set records for the highest number of award wins by an actor. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first actress to receive awards in each of the four acting categories. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the well-received 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and then in 2000 she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving their first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and which starred Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006 she was part of the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination in her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the spread of a disease, and produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.

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