Audra Mc Donald
Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is unmatched. Audra has been awarded six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable like those on film as well as on TV. She has a successful career performing and recording performing regularly in several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at the Juilliard School, New York. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for her performance in Carousel. Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first to win honors across all four categories. Her credits in the theatre includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill 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. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised 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. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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