Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talent as actor and singer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of 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 of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies or on television. She is a renowned performer performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for Carousel. The next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The sixth Tony Award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017, she was the first to make her West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for the winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. McDonald's credits in theater are 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 of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She is also a character on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.