Audra Mc Donald
Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. The winner of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success in Broadway and in the opera, as well as in both film and television. As well as her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at top places. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first time in the category of lead actress due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017, she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first person to receive honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald's credits in theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald received the first Emmy for her part as a character in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. McDonald became a character on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald, who first appeared 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 characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.
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