Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and actor. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for excellence in this area. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling She is equally as at ease on Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in role in television and film. Apart from performing in theater McDonald has also established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of the Featured Actress in a musical called Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first award in the category of leading actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. She created Broadway history as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Along with setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition category for an actor, she was also the first to receive awards in all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she played a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.