Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety in her roles as a performer, singer and actor. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. Due to her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales She has had success both on Broadway and at the opera, as well as for television and film. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in many of the top places around the world. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal training from the Juilliard School of New York. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she took home her 4th Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. She also set the record for having the most awards received by a single actor. Her other credits for theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. Then she had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.