Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as a performer is unmatched. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top honor for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by President Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies or on television. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording performing regularly in several of the most famous places around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on the London's West End. Along with setting the record for most awards in a competition category by an actor, she was also the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written 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. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018as the season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.
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