Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, as well as an actor. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from the president Barack Obama. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales She has had success both on Broadway and at the opera as well as in both film and television. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at several of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). After four more years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. The year 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on London's West End. She also set the record for the most awards won by one actor. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.
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