Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, as well as an actor. She has been a six-time record winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth Her roles on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film or on television. She is a renowned performer performing and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is the same role she played for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first actor to be awarded honors in all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age.
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