Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist in terms of the range and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift of telling compelling stories, she has found success on Broadway and in the opera, as well as on television and film. She has a successful career performing and recording performing regularly in several of the most famous places around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first time in the leading actress category for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The actress made Broadway history as she became the highest famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Not only did she set records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving category by an actor, she was also the first person ever to receive awards in all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got an 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. Presently, she is acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.