Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and her versatility as a singer and actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from President Barack Obama. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and her unrivaled ability to tell dramatic stories She has had success in Broadway and at the opera, as well as for television and film. Her career has been successful performing and recording and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious places around the world. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She received her fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017, she also was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first actor to be awarded awards for all four categories of acting. The credits she has in the theater include 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 on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she was a recurring on NBC's popular show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in the three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's period drama The Gilded Age.