Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety 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 named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth, her roles on Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films or on television. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in singer and a concert artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received instruction from 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, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. She won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first in the leading actress category for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record to win the most awards by an actor, she was the first to have won the four categories of acting. McDonald's credits in theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special appearance for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.