Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is unmatched. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. 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. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth, her roles on Broadway or the opera are as comfortable as those in films and TV. In addition to her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which is a major concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at top places. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She won his 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 was awarded five Tonys and her first award in the category of leading actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017 she was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record of winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre, including 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 shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The following year, McDonald was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.