Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from the President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth She is equally comfortable on Broadway and the opera stage as in her TV and film roles. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also a thriving profession as a recording and concert artist. Born into a musical family McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's identical to the role she performed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record for most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she became the first to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald's first role as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. In 2021, she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She appears as a special character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.