Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as actor and singer. A record six-time recipient from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies and TV. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing an active career as a musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. The first actor to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama 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 where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The actress was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she was an recurring role on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald got an 4th Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special guest for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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