Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is as at ease in Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that is a major concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at top places. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming an official 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 which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first person to receive the award in all four acting categories. Her credits in the theatre includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actress. She appeared on the show in 1999. starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a 4th Emmy award for her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.