Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist because of the diversity and scope of her talent as an actress and a vocalist. Her 2015 season saw her win an all-time record of seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. Her work was selected by Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received her the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award that is given in America for artistic achievement as awarded by the president Barack Obama. She has a home in film, television as well as Broadway. The enthralling soprano of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. In addition to her work in the theatre, she continues to make a name for herself as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. A musically inclined family, McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training in New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Performer in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years she received two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won five awards, including her first-ever award in the category of lead actress in the role of her lead on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth nomination in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that was also used as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance in London's West End. As well as setting the record for the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win honors in each of the four acting categories. McDonald's theater credits also are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) Twelfth Nacht (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premier show, which is Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation that debuted in 1921 and all That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which began to introduce McDonald to TV viewers as a dramatic actor. As of 1999, McDonald co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regular roles in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. After receiving her first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. She was a part of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played an NBC TV show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed comedy co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009, on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is a guest star on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.