Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. In 2015, she won an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given the National Medal of Arts - the highest award in America for excellence in art - from the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth, she is as much as at ease in 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 an impressive profession as a music and concert performer. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first in the category of leading actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The sixth Tony Award in 2014, her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. As well as recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first actor to be awarded awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role on her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.