Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given with the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize given in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by President Barack Obama. Due to her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident in Broadway and at the opera, as well as in both film and television. Her career has been successful in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious places around the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's identical to the role she performed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for most awards won by one actor. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but 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 made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. After receiving her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded the 4th Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is a featured appearance for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.