Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. A record six-time recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Due to her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories, she has found success in Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. As well as her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in the most prestigious places. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. Along with setting the record in which she won the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first person to win all 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 marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she was the 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 in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.