Audra Mc Donald
Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from the president Barack Obama. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success both on Broadway and at the opera, as well as in both film and television. In addition to her theatre performances, she also has an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first in the category of lead actress due to her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. Along with setting the record to win the most awards for actor, she was the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. Her credits in the theatre includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She appears as a special guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.






Comments
Post a Comment