Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and diversity as a singer, and an actor. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was selected as one the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the most prestigious honor bestowed to Americans for excellence in this area. With an unbeatable soprano beauty, and an ability for making truth come alive the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as those in films and television. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a recording artist, regularly performing at world's foremost venues. McDonald was born in a musical family in Fresno, CA. Her classical singing education at the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Lead Actress in musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the next four-year period, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress of Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) which gave her three Tony Awards at the age of just 30. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and the first time in the category of leading actress, for her part in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She made Broadway history in 2014 when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award nominee. She played Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill which was the part which was also instrumental in launching her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Along with setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first to win distinctions across each of the four acting categories. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) Twelfth Nacht (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation from 1921 & Everything That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. As of 1999, McDonald co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who won the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance for the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit featuring Emma Thompson returned to network television in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. At the beginning of 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she appeared as an occasional actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy award in recognition of her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, in 2016. In 2021, she starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.