Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth her voice is at home on Broadway as well as on the stage as in her film and television roles. In addition to her theatre performances, she also has many a career in musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. She won 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 won five Tonys and her first award in the leading actress category due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. Along with setting the record to win the most awards by an acting, she became the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. The credits she has in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. Her next appearance was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. 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 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.