Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in the arts--from President Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude of dramatizing the truth, her roles on Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as those in films or on television. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing many a career in singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald was born into a musical family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received instruction from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. She won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first award in the leading actress category due to her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards 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 the London's West End. Aside from setting a record in the contest to win the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first to have won the four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). 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. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. McDonald guest-stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.