Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her talent as actor and singer. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was received the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major performance and recording career. She regularly performs at top places. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. She won his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first award in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Also, she set the record of having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her debut Emmy for her part as a character in The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded an fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her part in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. She is also a appearance for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.