Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her artistry as both acting and singing. A record-breaking winner of six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. With an unbeatable soprano elegance and a talent to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera can be as welcoming like those on film and television. As well as her stage work, she continues to make a name for herself as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at major venues across the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family with musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. After graduating, she won her very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Through the course of four years she also won two Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her work in performances in the Broadway performances of the world premiere of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as In 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and the first award in the category of lead actress for her part on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to make Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. She also set records for the highest number of awards received by actors. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first actress to win awards across all four acting categories. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that began to introduce McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed ABC/Disney remake of Annie in 1999, she was been a regular character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving the first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The actress joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was one of the characters on NBC's program Kidnapped. McDonald got a 4th Emmy nomination in her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. In 2021, she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she's acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.