Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety as a singer, and performer. The winner of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A luminous singer with an unmatched gift of dramatic truth telling Ms. O'Connor is at ease performing on Broadway as well as the stage of opera and on the world of television. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which has a substantial recording and concert career. She performs regularly at top places. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she received her first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. The year 2004, she was awarded the fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was as the title character 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 which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting the record as the most wins in an award-giving area by an actor she also became the first actor to receive awards in all four categories of acting. Other credits in the theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald first appeared on television as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played a regular role in NBC's well-known series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She appears as a special guest in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.
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