Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is an exceptional artist in terms of her versatility and range of her skills as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. Her talents are equally at home with television, film and Broadway. Her luminous 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 venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a show for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she also won two Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance during both the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's Play Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won the fifth time and first time award in the category of lead actress for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway record-breaking history when she took home her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records for the highest number of successful wins for an actor, she was also the first to win awards in all four acting categories. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation from 1921 along with All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the well-received 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who won the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance for the HBO adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit starring Emma Thompson, was back on network TV in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of the WB program The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the next season, she starred as an NBC TV show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated to win a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald played her character Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount's The Good Fight. She earned three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She is currently in the role of a guest star on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.






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