Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is unmatched. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given the National Medal of Arts - the top honor for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence by the president Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films or on television. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also an impressive career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her training in classical singing at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she won the debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to setting the record for most awards in a competition category by an actor, she was also the first to receive awards in the four acting categories. Her credits in the theatre are 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 of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.