Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, and actor. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. Her work was named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor for artistic achievement in America to recognize artistic accomplishment and achievement - by President Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway or at the opera have the same aplomb like those on film as well as on TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer in the field of recording and concert artist, regularly performing at world's foremost venues. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. Her classical singing instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an actress who was featured in a show for Carousel and was presented at Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she also won two Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of both the Broadway performances of the world premiere of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) creating an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she received five Tony Awards and the first time in the category of leading actress, for her part of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She made Broadway historical records and was named one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer with her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. The actress also broke the record for the most prizes won by an actor. McDonald was also on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921, and All That Followed (2016). She was the very first actress to receive an award in the four categories of acting. McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. As of 1999, McDonald appeared with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald received her first Emmy due to her character as a character in The HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed 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., which starred Josh Brolin. She was a part of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played in a role that was recurring on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the spread of a disease, and produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age on HBO.
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