Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talents as an actress and a performer. She has been a six-time record recipient from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable on television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Her career has been successful performing and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first award in the category of lead actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. She also set the record for having the most awards received by an actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' Early 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received an fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018as the season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.