Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. She has been a six-time record recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. One year after graduation McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. She was awarded her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to make Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. She also set the record for the most awards won by an actor. McDonald's credits in 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. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.






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