Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is an exceptional artist due to the range and variety of her talent as a singer and actor. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for her achievements in this field. Her talents are equally at home on television, film and Broadway. The enthralling soprano of her voice can make her appear effortless on the stage. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing been a busy recording and concert artist. She has a regular performance schedule in the best venues of the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she took home the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Performer in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Through the course of four years she also won two Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in both the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his production Ragtime (1998) creating an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she was in the running for a fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five-year-old daughter received her first Tony in the category of Leading Actress when she was the main character for the musical The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to establish Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for acting in Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for highest awards won by actors in competition, as well as becoming the first individual to win the award in the four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921, and All That Followed (2016). She was the very first actress to receive awards in each of the four acting categories. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: A look at the Delany Sisters first 100 years. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake Annie at the end of 1999 McDonald was a recurring character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who won an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit featuring Emma Thompson was back on network TV in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006 she was part of the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on NBC's popular television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination in her appearance in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her role (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.