Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist due to her versatility and range of her skills as a performer and singer. Her 2015 season saw her win an all-time record of 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was recognized as a result of Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award that is given in America in recognition of artistic excellence by President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable with roles in film and television. Her professional career is a success both in recording and concerts frequently appearing at of the most sought-after performances around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by an extended family with musicians. When she attended the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she received two more Tony Awards for the category of the featured actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004 she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five-year old daughter took home her first Tony for her performance in the category of Leading Actress. In that performance, she portrayed the lead role for the musical The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She made Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated debut in the London's West End. Along with setting an all-time record for the amount of awards an actor has earned, she was the first to have won every category. McDonald was also in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). The actress was the first to receive an award in all four acting categories. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor came with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. As of 1999, McDonald appeared alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Additionally, she was a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role in the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson was seen on television in 2003, starring on the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on series on TV by WB, The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a 4th Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal crime thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.