Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and songwriter. The winner of an unprecedented six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift of telling compelling stories She has had success both on Broadway and in the opera, as well as in both film and television. As well as performing on stage, she has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in top places. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first in the category of leading actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. She also set the record for winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her performance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role played on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is a featured guest in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.