Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the range of her talents and her versatility as a singer and actor. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy as those in films and TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she won two additional 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 3 before the age of 30. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony when she starred in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she was awarded the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As the first actress to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. The credits she has in the theater include 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 in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The actress was a part of The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.