Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, and performer. Record-breaking six times recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She is a renowned performer performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Following four years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she earned two additional Tony Awards. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first in the category of leading actress due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win the award across all four categories. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first made her television debut as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following the first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. Presently, she is a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.