Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the breadth of her talent and versatility as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling She is equally comfortable in Broadway and the opera stage as in her role in television and film. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which is a major concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at world-class performances. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. 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 four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first time in the category of lead actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. The first actor to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) 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. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for three Critics Choice Award awards. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.