Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist because of her range and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize given in America for excellence in art - from the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Alongside performing on stage, she has established a successful career which has a substantial concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at world-class places. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony when she starred on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first person to receive honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The following year, McDonald appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is also a character on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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