Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. In 2015, she won a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious prize given in America for artistic achievement by the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. The first actor to be awarded in four different category of acting, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. Her theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her TV debut with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. Following her debut Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The actress became a character on The Bedford Diaries of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she played a recurring character on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.






Comments
Post a Comment