Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. In 2015, she won record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth Her roles in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies or on television. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first award in the category of leading actress due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to setting the record for most awards in a competition area by an actor she became the first to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. The following year, she received the first Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. She was a part of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. The following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.