Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is a singular performer in the diversity and scope of her skills as a singer and actor. Audra McDonald, the winner of 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 -- America's highest honour to recognize excellence in the field. A soprano with unmatched elegance and a talent for dramatizing truth and truth, her performances in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as those in films and TV. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing many facets of her career, including singer and concert performer. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. Born into a musical family McDonald spent her childhood within Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. The show she was a part of Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as In 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first time in the category of the leading actress for the role she played of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The actress also broke the record of most award wins by an actor. 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 the film Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). The actress was the first to receive an award in the four categories of acting. McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she appeared in a variety of roles on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her role on The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, but this time she was in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., featuring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006 she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over her next season, she appeared in the role of a regular on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy award in recognition of her part in HBO's film-special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the spread of a disease, and produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald began her role as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appears in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.






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