Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unrivaled by her variety and breadth in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking Six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals. She was also awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment within the field--from President Barack Obama. With an unbeatable soprano beauty and a knack for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb with roles in film and TV. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the major venues across the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she received her debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on both the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the production Ragtime (1998) which gave her an incredible total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she received five Tony Awards, and she was the first in the category of leading actress, for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Tony Awards' most decorated actress, she was able to make Broadway historical records when she won the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for highest awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first individual to win awards in each of the four acting categories. Some of her theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premier show, which is Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic acting on television was in the award-winning Peabody Award CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest in NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role for the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson was back on network TV in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she appeared as in a regular role on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned her fourth Emmy award for her appearance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. In 2021, she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her character (now called Liz Reddick) as a Season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.