Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. As a result of her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident both on Broadway and in the opera, as well as in both film and television. In addition to her theatre job, she is also pursuing an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting a record in the contest for winning the most awards for actor, she was the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was first seen on TV as a character actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a character actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed 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 series that debuted in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic drama The Gilded Age.