Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and versatility as an actor and singer. In 2015, she won record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also received the National Medal of Arts - the top award given in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys a thriving career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for Carousel. Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. Aside from setting a record in the contest to win the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.

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