Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talents as a singer and an actor. She was the recipient of an all-time record of seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was selected as a result of Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art as awarded by President Barack Obama. A dazzling soprano, and an unrivalled talent for telling dramatic truths her voice is at home in Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in film and TV roles. Apart from her theatre work, she continues to make a name for herself as a recording artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up at Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education in New York's Juilliard School. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a show for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And the year 2012 was when her five-year-old daughter won her first Tony Award in the Leading Actress category when she was the main character for the musical The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway the history books in 2014 as she was the most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also instrumental in launching the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her sixth Tony Award. Along with setting the record for the most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first to win honors in every category of acting. Other credits in the theater comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson was seen on television in 2003, starring on the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over her next season, she appeared in the role of a regular on NBC's popular television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, which was a film special. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on the spread of a disease, and produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009, on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald was back in the character (now being dubbed Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ and received the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.
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