Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from President Barack Obama. Because of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success on Broadway as well as at the opera as well as for television and film. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys a thriving career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting the record for most wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she became the first to be awarded in the four acting categories. The credits she has in the theater includes 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 on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald made her TV debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred Years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald received her debut Emmy for her performance in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.