Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is an exceptional artist in terms of the diversity and scope of her abilities as a performer and singer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was recognized in Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor that is given in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. She has a home on screen, in television as well as Broadway. Her beautiful soprano can make her appear effortless on the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career in the field of recording and concert artist who performs regularly at major venues across the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan with musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. In the subsequent four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) that gave her three Tony Awards at the age of just thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and the first one in the category the leading actress for the role she played as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to establish Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for highest awards won by actors in competition, she became the first to win honors in every category of acting. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor came with the winner of the Peabody Award on the CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 TV remake from Disney/ABC of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work on the HBO adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit featuring Emma Thompson returned to network television in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald joined the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played an NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a 4th Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. In 2021, she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the performance. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.