Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for achievements in this field. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb like those on film and TV. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major recording and concert career. She performs regularly at top performances. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As well as setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first person to receive the award in all four acting categories. Her credits in the theatre are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's debut as a dramatic actor on television was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next role was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received the fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018, as Season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.