Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both an actor and singer. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. Her talents are equally at home with television, film as well as Broadway. The enthralling soprano of her voice can make her appear effortless on the stage. Her career has been successful in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most famous concert halls around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald spent her childhood within Fresno California and received her classical training at the New York's Juilliard School. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an actress who was featured in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The next four-year period, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress as a lead actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998), making an overall total of three Tony Awards at the age at just 30. The actress won her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and the first one in the category leading actress for her part of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. The actress made Broadway history when she was the most decorated Tony Award winner. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Additionally, she set the record for most successful wins for an actor, as well as becoming the first to win the award in all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) The 110th Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She was the very first actress to be awarded in all four acting categories. McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed ABC/Disney remake of Annie In 1999 McDonald was been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her performance of"The Wit," the HBO versions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. She was a part of Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed comedy co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which can be seen on HBO.