Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity as a vocalist, as well as an actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as 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 this field -- from the president Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies and TV. As well as her stage work, McDonald has built a career that is a major recording and concert career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious places. McDonald was born into a musical family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal instruction from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She was awarded her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she received the fourth Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. In addition to setting the record as the most wins in a competitive area by an actor she became the first to be awarded in each of the four types of acting. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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 made her television debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her debut Emmy nomination in recognition of 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. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018. She reprised her roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated in three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.