Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and her versatility as a singer and actor. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top prize in America in recognition of artistic excellence by the president Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as those in films or on television. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also an impressive profession as a musician and recording artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. One year after graduation, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. In addition to setting a record in the competition for winning the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series 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 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her role on her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald got the fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.