Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. Because of her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident in Broadway and in the opera and for television and film. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at world-class places. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting the record for most awards in a competition category for an actor, she also became the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald's credits in 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 was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald got a fourth Emmy nomination for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. 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 characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.