Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, as well as an actor. She was the recipient of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as those in films as well as on TV. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has established a successful career which has a substantial recording and concert career. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most famous Tony Award winner. 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, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record as the most awards in a competition category for an actor, she also became the first to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.