Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talent as an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald, the winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for her achievements in this field. Her talents are equally at home with television, film as well as Broadway. The enthralling soprano of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. In addition to her theatre work, she has been a busy singer and concert performer. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. The daughter of a musician family McDonald spent her childhood living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Through the course of four years she won two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in the Broadway performances of the world premiere of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his production Ragtime (1998) creating the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012, she was awarded her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her role as the title for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway the history books in 2014 as she was the most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also instrumental in launching the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her sixth Tony Award. Not only did she set an all-time record for the amount of awards an actor has received, she also became the first to win each of the four categories. McDonald has also appeared on 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 that premiered in 1921 and everything That Followed (2016). She was the first actress to be awarded in every one of the acting categories. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was with the award-winning Peabody Award CBS series Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. She appeared on the show in 1999. appeared alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Additionally, she was an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. After receiving their first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The actress joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB program The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the next season, she played an NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a 4th Emmy in her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed comedy co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. First appearing in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now being dubbed Liz Reddick) as a Season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress also appears in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.