Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor in America for artistic achievement - from President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb like those on film as well as on TV. In addition to performing on stage, she has established a successful career which includes a significant performance and recording career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious places. McDonald was raised in a musical family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. One year after graduation McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. The year 2004, she received her 4th Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the contest to win the most awards for acting performance, she also became the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald was awarded the fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.