Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in her breadth of talent and her versatility as an actor and singer. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from the President Barack Obama. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident both on Broadway as well as at the opera as well as in both film and television. Apart from her theater performances, she also has many a career in musician and recording artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of 30. She won her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. 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. This is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the contest to win the most awards for acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her debut Emmy for her performance on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal drama The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.

 Audra Mc Donald  Audra Mc a s Mc Donald  Audra Mc f  Audra Martin Audra c

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Andrea Joy Cook and Anllela Sagra

Allison Miller

Abby Lucero