Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a singular performer in the range and variety of her talents as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of an unprecedented Six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. Her work was selected as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the top award for artistic achievement in America to recognize artistic accomplishment and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film and Broadway. The enthralling soprano of her voice can make her appear effortless on the stage. She is an accomplished performer as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at some of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. Her classical singing education at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel and was presented at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the course of the subsequent four years the actress was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a lead actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) which gave her a total of 3 Tony Awards at the age just 30. In 2004 she was in the running for a fourth Tony Award. Her role was that of A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And the year 2012 was when her five-year-old daughter received her first Tony in the category of Leading Actress. In that performance, she was the main character as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she was the most decorated Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. As well as setting records for the amount of Tony Awards an actor has been awarded, she is the first ever to have won each of the four categories. Other credits in the theater comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) the film that was Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's initial appearance as a TV actor came with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The year 1999 saw her appeared with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her role as a character in"The Wit," the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. She joined the crew of series on TV by WB, The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on NBC's drama series Kidnapped. McDonald received a 4th Emmy award in recognition of her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, in 2016. She was a part of Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She is currently in the role of a guest star on Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age on HBO.