Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist because of her range and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. Due to her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident in Broadway as well as at the opera as well as for television and film. Apart from her theater performances, she also has been a busy recording and concert artist. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating she received the debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she was considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition category for an actor, she also became the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical 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 on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald made her TV debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.

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