Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as an artist is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb like those on film or on television. Apart from her theater work, she has been a busy recording and concert artist. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. 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 during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been named for the Olivier Award. She also set the record for most awards won by an actor. Her credits in the theatre include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was 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 on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received the fourth Emmy award for her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing Season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.