Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. As a result of her beautiful tone, and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories, she has found success on Broadway and at the opera as well as for television and film. In addition to her work in the theatre, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received training at the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first in the leading actress category due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for winning the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a recurring on NBC's popular show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald joined the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. In the following season, she played an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is a featured appearance for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.