Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her work as an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald, who won seven Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time 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 excellence in the field. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films as well as on TV. Her professional career is a success in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the top concert halls around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a large family that included musicians. When she attended the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. After four years she received two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. Her role was that of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five-year-old daughter received her first Tony for her performance in the category of Lead Actress. she portrayed the lead role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the top-recognized Tony Award-winning performer. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also instrumental in launching the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her sixth Tony Award. In addition to setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first actor to be awarded awards in each of the four acting categories. The other plays she has appeared in are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) the film that was Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was 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. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber along with other stars in the well-received Disney/ABC remake Annie In 1999 she was been a regular character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. In the wake of receiving their first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to the network's television program in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. McDonald joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early in the year. In the next season, she was in a role that was recurring on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. She was a part of Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age on HBO.