Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, and performer. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy like those on film or on television. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming the 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 performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald set a record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The following year, McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama 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 was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is a featured character on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.
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