Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched with the variety and breadth of her talent as acting and singing. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. The actress was named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded the National Medal of Arts - the highest award that is given in America for excellence in art and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. She has a home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano can make her appear effortless on the stage. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing been a busy singer and concert performer. She has a regular performance schedule in the finest venues of the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a large family of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from the Juilliard, McDonald took home the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. The following four years the actress was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances of Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) which gave her three Tony Awards at the age just thirty. She received her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and the first time in the category of leading actress, for her part on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She made Broadway historical records and was named an official Tony Awards most decorated performer with the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated debut on the London's West End. Along with setting the record for highest awards won by actors in competition, she became the first individual to win the award in the four categories of acting. McDonald was also in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first actress to be awarded in each of the four acting categories. McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was on the winner of the Peabody Award on the CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In the following years, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her role of The HBO versions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television, but this time she was in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006 she was part of the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 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. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald played her character Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.