Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a unique artist because of her versatility and range of her talent as an actress and a vocalist. In 2015, she won an all-time record of six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was selected in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the top award given in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched elegance and a talent for dramatizing truth and truth, her performances in Broadway as well as in opera can be as welcoming as the roles in movies and television. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in some of the most famous performances around the globe. McDonald was born into a musically inclined household in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received training from the Juilliard School of New York. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. The next four years she won two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) creating an incredible total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She received her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards, and she was the first award in the category of leading actress for the role she played on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She created Broadway history in 2014 when she became the top-recognized Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. As well as setting records for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor she became the first actor to be awarded the award in the four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the well-received 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 due to her part for the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson was seen again on TV networks in 2003, starring on the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006 she was part of the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on NBC's drama series Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald was nominated to win a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, which was a film special. In 2021, she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald played her character Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount's The Good Fight. She earned three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.