Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. She has been a six-time record winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth She is equally comfortable on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. She is a renowned performer performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top performances around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first in the leading actress category for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played 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 nominated for an Olivier Award. She also set the record for most awards won by an actor. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following her first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. McDonald starred along 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 first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is a featured character on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.