Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, who 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. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally comfortable on Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her TV and film roles. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. She received her 4th Tony by starring in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first in the leading actress category. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to create Broadway historical records when she won the sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Also, she set the record for the having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her debut Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got an fourth Emmy nomination for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.