Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories her success has been evident on Broadway and at the opera and for television and film. In addition to performing on stage, she has built a career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in the most prestigious places. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. The year 2004, she received her 4th Tony by starring as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony as well as her first award in the Leading actress category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been named for the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first role as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her part on her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for Three Critics Choice Award awards. She is also a character in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.