Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, as well as an actor. Audra McDonald, winner of 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 nation's most prestigious award to recognize achievements in the field. She's equally comfortable in film, television and Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first time in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the contest to win the most awards for actor, she was 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 and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She appears as a special guest for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.