Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. As a result of her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories She has had success in Broadway and in the opera as well as on television and film. Her career has been successful performing and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. One year after graduation, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first award in the Leading actress category. The Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first person to receive the award in all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her role on the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed 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., which starred Josh Brolin. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she was an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.