Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also received the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor given in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an extraordinary gift for dramatically telling the truth Ms. O'Connor can be found performing on Broadway as well as the opera stage and in television. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also an impressive career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald was raised in a musical family in Fresno, CA. She underwent classical vocal training from the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became 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 that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to setting a record in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first to have won all four acting categories. The credits she has in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was 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 as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role and McDonald returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy nomination for her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her role (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.






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