Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the breadth of her talent and versatility as a singer and actor. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence by President Barack Obama. Due to her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability to tell dramatic stories She has had success on Broadway and at the opera as well as in both film and television. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. Following her graduation, she won the very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first in the leading actress category for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. Aside from setting a record for winning the most awards by an acting, she became the first woman to be awarded the four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.