Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald, who won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. She has a home in television, film as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys established a successful career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. When she graduated, she won her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the leading actress category in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record as the most wins in a competitive category for an actor, she was also the first actor to be awarded in all four categories of acting. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. Her next role was that of a regular 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 in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.