Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talent as actor and singer. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films as well as on TV. Apart from her theater work, she has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first award in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014 her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving area by an actor she became the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.