Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and versatility as a singer and actor. A record six-time recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as those in films and TV. As well as performing on stage, she has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in the most prestigious venues. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. In 1994, just a few years after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first award in the category of leading actress due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she also was the first to make the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win honors across all four categories. The credits she has in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which was the first to introduce McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In early 2006 she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. McDonald guest-stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.