Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unparalleled. She has won the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. Due to her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories, she has found success in Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant concert and record-making career. She frequently performs in world-class venues. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. She was awarded her 4th Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway production. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. As well as making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first actor to be awarded awards across all four categories. Her credits in the theatre includes 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 of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was introduced to the TV audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as Season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She appears as a special guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.