Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded the National Medal of Arts - the highest award in America for excellence in art - from President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy as the roles in movies and TV. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys an impressive profession as a music and concert performer. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she was awarded the fourth Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and won the first award in the leading 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 the same role she played in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she was also the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. She went on to 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 played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded the fourth Emmy award for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.