Audra Mc Donald
The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is unmatched. She has won six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much as at ease on Broadway and the opera stage as in her TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for Carousel. After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The 6th Tony award in 2014, her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she also was the first to make the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record of having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald made her TV debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. Following her debut Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald got a fourth Emmy award for her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is a featured appearance for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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