Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer and 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 -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies as well as on TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first actor to be awarded honors in all four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she was an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen 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 role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing an episode the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. McDonald guest-stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.