Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. She has a home in film, television and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. After graduating, she won the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the subsequent four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first in the leading actress category due to her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. When she won the sixth Tony Award in 2014, her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the contest in which she won the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first to have won the four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. After that, in 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as a recurring on NBC's popular show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's period film The Gilded Age.