Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity as a singer, as well as an actor. Audra McDonald, who won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift of telling compelling stories her success has been evident on Broadway and in the opera, as well as on television and film. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also a thriving profession as a music and concert performer. Born into a musical family McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. As well as recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first actor to be awarded the award for all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She became a character on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy award for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' period comedy The Gilded Age.