Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, and performer. She was the recipient of a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top honor in America for artistic achievement by the president Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies as well as on TV. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also a thriving career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on performances in the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She won her fourth Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's the same role she played in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. The first actor to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her performance in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The actress became a character on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in Three Critics Choice Award awards. She appears as a special guest in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.