Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as a singer and an actor. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top prize for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence by the president Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays on Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy like those on film as well as on TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she has a thriving career as a recording performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. She won the fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As the first actress to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the amount of awards an actor has won. McDonald's credits in theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next appearance 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. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's film of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on 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 got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is a featured appearance in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.