Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unrivaled in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Audra McDonald, the winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award to recognize excellence in the field. With an unbeatable soprano elegance and a talent for making truth come alive and truth, her performances in Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as comfortable with roles in film as well as on TV. Alongside her stage work, she has an active career as a recording and concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. The daughter of a musician family McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). After four years she received two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. She was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and the first in the category of leading actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. She made Broadway history in 2014 when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award-winning performer. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her sixth Tony Award. In addition, she set records for the highest number of awards received by actors. 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), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premier show, which is Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was with the winner of the Peabody Award on the CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit which starred Emma Thompson was seen on television in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she played in a role that was recurring on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy nomination for her part in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's civil drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now named Liz Reddick) as a regular in the season premiere of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She is a guest star on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.