Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as a performer is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. The winner of an unprecedented six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth, her roles in Broadway or the opera are as comfortable as those in films or on television. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has established a successful profession as a music and concert performer. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She won his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first award in the category of lead actress due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to create Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive awards across all four categories. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her part as a character in her role 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-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the crew of 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 nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's period drama The Gilded Age.
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