Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a singer, as well as an actor. Audra McDonald, who won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Times magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award to recognize achievements in the field. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is at home in Broadway and the opera stage as in her role in television and film. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her training in classical singing at New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the subsequent four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). 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. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is also a guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.