Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. The actress was recognized in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award given in America in recognition of artistic excellence by the president Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. The enthralling soprano of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in some of the top places around the world. McDonald was born to a family with a strong musical background in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of the featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and the first time in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She created Broadway history when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award winner. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. The actress also broke the record for most awards received by actors. 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 the film Shuffle Along the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first actress to be awarded in the four categories of acting. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her appeared alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her performance on The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. In the following season, she was an NBC television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for her fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. In 2021, she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in 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 was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.