Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the breadth of her talent and versatility as an actor and singer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies and TV. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also established a successful profession as a recording and concert artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress the Musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first award in the leading actress category for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most popular Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Along with setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving area by an actor she also became the first actor to be awarded in all four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her part on her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She appears as a special appearance on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.