Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and versatility as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth She is equally comfortable in Broadway and the opera stage as in her TV and film roles. Apart from performing in theater, McDonald also has a thriving profession as a music and concert performer. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) giving her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was won for her performance as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition area by an actor she also became the first actor to win awards for each of the four types of acting. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's debut as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe First 100 Years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress returned to network TV in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the character (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She appears as a special character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.