Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald stands out in her breadth of talent and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home in television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was 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 received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has won. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), 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 of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her television debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. Her next role was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance as a character in The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The following year, McDonald appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is also a appearance in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.
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