Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist because of her range and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. She has been a six-time record winner of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories, she has found success both on Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also established a successful career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. A year after graduating she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in The Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) giving her an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She won the fourth Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. She made Broadway history when she became the world's most famous Tony Award winner. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. First actor given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the number of awards an actor has been awarded. Her credits in the theatre include 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's first role as a dramatic television actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role on the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald joined The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.