Audra Mc Donald
Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a singer, as well as an actor. She was the recipient of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Alongside performing on stage, she has built a career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. One year after graduation, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category for her title role performance in 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 is identical to the role she performed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest for winning the most awards for acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. McDonald's credits in theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which was the first to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win three Critics Choice Award awards. She is also a character in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






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