Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist because of her range and variety of her talent as a performer and songwriter. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from President Barack Obama. Because of her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident in Broadway and in the opera as well as for television and film. Alongside performing on stage, she has built a career that has a substantial recording and concert career. She regularly performs at top places. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. When she graduated, she won her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play 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 nominated to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she was also the first to win the award in all four acting categories. McDonald's credits in theater includes 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 in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. Her next appearance was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.