Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, and performer. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from the president Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. As well as performing on stage, she has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in world-class venues. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first time in the category of leading actress due to her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is identical to the role she performed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she was considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. First actor awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has won. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next role was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. Following the first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.