Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of 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 -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident in Broadway as well as at the opera as well as for television and film. In addition to performing on stage, she has established a successful career which includes a significant performance and recording career. She frequently performs in the most prestigious performances. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after graduating, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. She also set the record for having the most awards received by an actor. The credits she has in the theater 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 as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.