Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as a singer and an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top award given in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by President Barack Obama. A stunning singer, with an unparalleled talent for dramatically telling the truth, Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on television. She has a successful career performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top performances around the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her training in classical singing at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She took home her 4th Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony in addition to her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to setting a record to win the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first person to win the four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her part in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen 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 the roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's period comedy The Gilded Age.
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