Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for achievements in this field. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much comfortable on Broadway and on the opera stage as in her role in television and film. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording, appearing regularly at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald was raised in a musical family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training at the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play 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 was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. In addition to setting the record as the most awards in a competition category by an actor, she also became the first person ever to win awards for the four acting categories. McDonald's credits in theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked 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 in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018, reprised these role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.