Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talent as actor and singer. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from the president Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies or on television. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she took home her fourth Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony as well as her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. The first actor to be recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. 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 was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. She joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was an recurring role on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded the fourth Emmy award for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is a featured guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.