Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and versatility as a singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A soprano with unmatched elegance and an aptitude of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb as those in films as well as on TV. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing been a busy musician and recording artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway historical records when she won the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting a record to win the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded each of the four categories for acting. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is a featured appearance in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.