Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal for Arts --America's highest award for accomplishment within the field--from President Barack Obama. She has a home with television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording and concert artist, regularly performing at top venues around the globe. The daughter of a musician family McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she received two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she received five Tony Awards, and she was the first in the category of lead actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway record-breaking history when she took home her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. She also set the record for most prizes won by an actor. McDonald was also on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) The 110th Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along A Musical Shock: the Making of the Musical Shock that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). She was the very first actress to win awards across every one of the acting categories. McDonald was introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say The Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the well-received 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, appeared in a variety of roles on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. In the wake of receiving the first Emmy nomination due to her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to the network's television program in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. In 2021 she co-starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018, she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.