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Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling she is as much at home on Broadway and opera stages as she is in roles on film and television.

In addition to her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing on the great stages of the world.Born into a musical family McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the Juilliard School.

A year after graduating she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater.

She received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category over the next four years for her performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally’s Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) for an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30.

In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth—and her first in the leading actress category—for her role in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.

In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards’ most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill—the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London’s West End.

In addition to setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories.

McDonald’s other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009) Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019).