Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from her theater performances, she also has an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. At 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 by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony in addition to her first in the leading actress category. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017, she was the first to make the West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 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 this performance. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.