Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. In 2015, she won an all-time record of 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. The actress was recognized as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art and achievement - by President Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her beautiful soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many facets of her career, including singer and concert performer. She is regularly performing in the finest venues of the world. The daughter of a musician family McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she won her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Through the subsequent four years the actress was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor as a lead actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) that gave her a total of 3 Tony Awards at the age of only thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012. In 2012, she received five Tony Awards, and she was the first time in the category of lead actress for the role she played on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. She made Broadway history when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award winner. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill which was the part that was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her the six Tony Awards. She also set records for the highest number of award wins by an actor. McDonald was also in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first actress to receive an award in every one of the acting categories. McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor came with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The year 1999 saw her appeared with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. Following her first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer prize-winning play Wit which was directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006 she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on series on TV by WB, The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the spread of a disease, and produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald began her role as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal crime thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance was recognized with three Critics Choice Award Nominations. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which can be seen on HBO.