Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given with the National Medal of Arts - the top honor in America for excellence in art and achievement - by President Barack Obama. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales She has had success on Broadway and in the opera as well as in both film and television. As well as performing on stage, she has built a career that is a major performance and recording career. She performs regularly at the most prestigious performances. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she won the very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth--and her first for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald beat the record in the number of awards an actor has won. Her credits in the theatre include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next appearance was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The actress was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.