Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the breadth of her talent and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as those in films and TV. Apart from her theater work, she has many a career in singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' Early 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress is a featured character in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.