Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a singer, as well as an actor. She was the recipient of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A soprano with unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth, her roles on Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb like those on film or on television. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also a thriving profession as a music and concert performer. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles of The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been named for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest in which she won the most awards by an acting, she became the first to have won all four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her role in The HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical comedy The Gilded Age.