Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as an artist is unmatched. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, who 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 achievements in this field. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth She is equally at home in Broadway and the opera stage as in her role in television and film. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in several of the most famous performances around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth 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 main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. She also set the record for winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of 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 at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for Three Critics Choice Award awards. McDonald guest-stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.