Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Audra McDonald, who won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award to recognize achievements in the field. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally as at ease in Broadway and on the opera stage as in her role in television and film. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. Born into a musical family McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. One year after graduation, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first in the leading actress category for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The actress made Broadway history when she became the world's most famous Tony Award winner. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. In addition to setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Nacht (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her role on her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received an fourth Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. In 2021, she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated in the three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.