Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a unique performer in her range of talents and the variety of her skills as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for her achievements in this field. She is blessed with a beautiful soprano with an extraordinary talent for telling dramatic truths She is equally comfortable in Broadway and on the opera stage as in her film and TV performances. In addition to her theatre performances, she also has many facets of her career, including music producer and concert artist. She performs regularly in the finest venues of the world. Born into a musical family McDonald spent her childhood at Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Lead Actress in musical" for Carousel. Through the following four years the actress was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles of Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) which gave her a total of 3 Tony Awards at the age of only 30. She won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she received five Tonys and her first in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award 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 on the London's West End. As well as setting an all-time record for the amount of honors an actor has received, she also became the first actor to be awarded in the four categories. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) Twelfth Nacht (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation from 1921 & Everything That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's initial appearance as a television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who won an Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 due to her part as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film 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 winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald starred on the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the performance. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.