Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist because of her range and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from the president Barack Obama. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories She has had success in Broadway and in the opera and on television and film. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017 she was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first actor to be awarded honors across all four categories. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated in Three Critics Choice Award awards. She is also a appearance for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.