Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as an artist is second to none. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, who won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. She is equally at home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Alongside her stage work, she has many a career in singer and a concert artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. She created Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Also, she set the record for winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. The credits she has in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following the first Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.






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