Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. She's equally comfortable in film, television and Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at several of the most famous performances around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) giving her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first time in the category of leading actress due to her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The actress made Broadway history as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record as the most wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she also became the first to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her debut Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got an fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appeared on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.

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