Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out as a truly unique performer in the diversity and scope of her abilities as an actress and a vocalist. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named among the top 100 influential individuals. She was also awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious honor for achievements in this field -- from President Barack Obama. A dazzling soprano voice and an unparalleled talent for dramatic truth-telling She is equally at home in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in film and TV role. Alongside her theatrical work she continues to make a name for herself as a recording performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in California, Fresno. Her classical singing training from the Juilliard School of New York. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of an Actress in a show for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. After four years she received two additional Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. She received her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, her first time in the category of the leading actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. She made Broadway history in 2014 when she was named the highest-rated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role that was also the catalyst for 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 a record in the number of awards an actor won, she was also the first person ever to be awarded in all four categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) The 110th Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921, and All That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first actress to win awards across all four acting categories. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to TV viewers as a dramatic actor. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber along with other stars in the well-received Disney/ABC remake Annie In 1999 McDonald had an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald earned her first Emmy for her part in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. She joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she played one of the characters on NBC's television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009, on CBS's legal television drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her character (now called Liz Reddick) as a Season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. In the present, she's acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which can be seen on HBO.