Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a vocalist, as well as an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She is a renowned performer performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training from the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. 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. This is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. In addition to setting the record for most awards in a competition area by an actor she also became the first actor to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and 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 in Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role on her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The following year, McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.