Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. A record six-time winner at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Because of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling compelling stories her success has been evident in Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at the most prestigious performances. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she won the debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first award in the leading actress category due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is identical to the role she performed in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. Her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next role was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her performance on the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as 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+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.