Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a unique artist in terms of the range and variety of her skills as a singer and actor. Audra McDonald who has won seven Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was selected as one the The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for her achievements in this field. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and a talent for dramatizing truth and truth, her performances in Broadway or the opera can be as welcoming with roles in film or on television. Alongside her stage performance, she enjoys worked as a music producer and concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised within Fresno California and received her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the top performance of a Featured actress in a show for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an incredible total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received her sixth nomination 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 London's West End. Along with setting records for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor she also became the first to win the award in every category of acting. The other plays she has appeared in comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) the film that was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation from 1921 along with All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had the role of a regular in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 due to her part as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit featuring Emma Thompson was seen on television in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film is directed by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. At the beginning of 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award due to her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. In 2021, she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount's The Good Fight. She earned three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.