Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she received her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following 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). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The following year, McDonald was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is also a guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.