Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and versatility as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for achievements in this field. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at many of the top places around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She received her 4th Tony when she starred in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony as well as her first award in the Leading actress category. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway performance. In 2017 she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first person to receive honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in the three Critics Choice Award awards. She is also a appearance in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.