Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and versatility as an actor and singer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded the National Medal of Arts - the top honor in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent for dramatic truth-telling her voice is at home on Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also an impressive career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first award in the category of leading actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to create Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The first actor to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. Her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing Season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is a featured character for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.