Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top award for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement by the president Barack Obama. As a result of her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift of telling compelling stories She has had success in Broadway and in the opera, as well as on television and film. Apart from her theater performances, she also has many a career in singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her Sixth Tony in the year 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway performance. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest for winning the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first woman to be awarded each of the four categories for acting. Her credits in the theatre are 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 in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. McDonald then appeared as the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018. She reprised her role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated in three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.