Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in her breadth of talent and versatility as an actor and singer. A record six-time winner of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling her voice is at home on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in TV and film roles. Apart from performing in theater, McDonald also has established a successful career as an international musician and recording artist. Born into a musical family McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her title role performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress joined The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.

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