Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. Audra McDonald who has won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also a thriving profession as a recording and concert artist. McDonald was raised in a musical family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first actor to be awarded awards across all four categories. 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) Twelfth (2009), 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 of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018. She reprised her role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age.