Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, and performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given with the National Medal of Arts - the highest award in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. As a result of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales She has had success in Broadway and in the opera as well as for television and film. As well as her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which includes a significant concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious performances. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. In 1994, a year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress the Musical" for Carousel. In the subsequent four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination award in the category Leading Actress was won for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to setting the record for most wins in an award-giving area by an actor she became the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her performance on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald was awarded an fourth Emmy award for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. McDonald guest-stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.