Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both actor and singer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. An enthralling singer who has an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth telling, Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway and on the stage of opera and on the world of television. In addition to her work in the theater, McDonald also has a thriving career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald was born into a musical family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway history when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to setting the record as the most awards in a competition area by an actor she was also the first person ever to be awarded in all four categories of acting. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as an recurring role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's period comedy The Gilded Age.
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