Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is second to none. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. 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. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident on Broadway as well as at the opera and in both film and television. Alongside her stage work, she has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. In the four following years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. First actor recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has received. Her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first appeared on television as a character actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is a featured guest on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.