Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist because of her range and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald who has won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles on Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy as those in films and TV. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at top places. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first time in the category of lead actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. In addition to setting a record in the contest to win the most awards for acting, she became the first to have won the four categories of acting. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a recurring on NBC's popular program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.