Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. She was the recipient of a record breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success on Broadway and in the opera, as well as in both film and television. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. She won his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first time in the category of leading actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. Along with recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor she also became the first to win the award across all four categories. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre such as 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 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 was first introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.