Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both actor and singer. The winner of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth, her roles on Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy like those on film and TV. Apart from her theater work, she has been a busy recording and concert artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at Juilliard School, New York. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for her performance in Carousel. After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first in the leading actress category for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. She also set the record for the having the most awards received by one actor. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald got the 4th Emmy award for her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. McDonald guest-stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.