Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. In 2015, she won an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize in America for artistic achievement - from the president Barack Obama. She has a home in television, film and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training at The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. The year 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been named for the Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record of winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. The credits she has in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. Her next role was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her role 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 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the show on WB called 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 & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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