Audra Mc Donald
Her versatility and range as a performer is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home in television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Her career has been successful performing and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training from The Juilliard School of New York. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 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 award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's identical to the role she performed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record for most wins in an award-giving area by an actor she was also the first to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character and McDonald returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age.
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