Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, as well as an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys a thriving profession as a recording and concert artist. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the four following years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. The first actor to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the number of awards an actor has won. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.