Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unrivaled in her range of talents and diversity as a vocalist, and performer. In 2015, she was awarded an all-time record of six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. She was also acknowledged as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the highest award for artistic achievement in America to recognize artistic accomplishment as awarded by President Barack Obama. She has a home with television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She is an accomplished performer performing and recording performing regularly in some of the most famous places around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. When she attended the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating, she was awarded her very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Performer in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of prominent actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win award in the category of lead actress for her title role performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she was the most decorated Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, 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. Not only did she set a record in the number of honors an actor has earned, she was the first to be awarded in each of the four categories. Her theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) the latter of which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation from 1921 & Everything That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor came with the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In the following years, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 TV remake from Disney/ABC of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit which was directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald starred on the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the spread of a disease, and produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald began her role as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal crime thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance was recognized with three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently in the role of a guest star on Julian Fellowes's historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.