Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a vocalist, and actor. She was the recipient of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top prize for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. She is equally at home in television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has an impressive career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. A year after graduating McDonald won an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. She won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first time in the leading actress category for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. As well as setting the record for most 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 has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won the first Emmy for her role in her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as an episode the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.