Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistic talent is unparalleled by her variety and breadth as a vocalist, and an actor. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the most prestigious honor bestowed to Americans for excellence in this area. She is equally at home with television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Her professional career is a success performing and recording and regularly performs at some of the most famous places around the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in California, Fresno. Her classical singing training at The Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of the featured actress. The show she was a part of Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as In 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and the first one in the category leading actress for her part in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. She made Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the platform for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut performance in the London's West End. In addition to setting records for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first individual to win honors in every category of acting. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) The 110th Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921, and All That Followed (2016). The actress was the first to be awarded in the four categories of acting. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to TV viewers as a dramatic actor. As of 1999, McDonald co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Additionally, she was a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work in the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit with Emma Thompson was seen on television in 2003, starring on the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is directed by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald starred on the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald was nominated for her fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on the spread of a disease, and produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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