Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unparalleled. She has won the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the 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 achievements in this field. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies as well as on TV. In addition to her theatre performances, she also has an active career as a recording and concert artist. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. As well as making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she also became the first to win the award across all four categories. Her credits in the theatre includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her role as a character in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. She was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she starred as an recurring role on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.