Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a vocalist, and performer. She was the recipient of an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor given in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by President Barack Obama. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories, she has found success on Broadway as well as at the opera as well as for television and film. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major performance and recording career. She regularly performs at world-class venues. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. She won her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first to win awards for all four categories of 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 was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.