Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and diversity as a vocalist, and performer. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the The 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. A dazzling soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner the actress is just as comfortable in Broadway and on the opera stage as she is in films and TV role. In addition to her work in the theatre, she continues to make a name for herself in the field of recording and concert artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. The daughter of a musician family McDonald spent her childhood living in Fresno California and received her classical training at New York's Juilliard School. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the top performance of an actress who was featured in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the course of the next four-year period the actress was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a lead actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) that gave her the total 3 Tony Awards at the age of just thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012, she received five Tony Awards and the first in the category of the leading actress for her part on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway record-breaking history when she took home her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Additionally, she set the record for highest successful wins for an actor, she also became the first individual to win awards in each of the four acting categories. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along: A Musical Shock Story: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921, and All That Followed (2016). The actress was the first to receive an award in all four acting categories. McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The year 1999 saw her appeared alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. Following her first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. She was a part of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early in the year. In the following season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald earned a fourth Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.