Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a vocalist, and performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. She has a home in film, television and Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has a thriving profession as a musician and recording artist. Born into a musical family McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald won an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth--and her first in the lead actress category in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014, the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she also was the first to make the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most awards in a competition area by an actor she was also the first to be awarded in all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it also was the 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show 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 produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the characters (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. She appears as a special character for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.