Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and performer. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from the president Barack Obama. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales, she has found success in Broadway and in the opera and on television and film. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys an impressive career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. A year after graduating McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. She was awarded her fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald is also featured 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 A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Nacht (2009). 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. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played an recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded an 4th Emmy nomination for her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. In 2021, she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.