Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from President Barack Obama. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident on Broadway and at the opera and in both film and television. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also an impressive profession as a musician and recording artist. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 to star in the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She is also a appearance on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.