Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and her versatility as a singer and actor. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies and TV. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed musician and recording artist. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she took home her 4th Tony when she starred on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. In the year she received her Sixth Tony in the year 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first person to receive awards across all four categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. 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 an fourth Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.