Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a singer, and actor. A record six-time winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb like those on film and TV. She has a successful career in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious places around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for having the most awards received by a single actor. Her credits in the theatre 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 in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. The following year, she received her first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.
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