Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film and Broadway. Her luminous soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Apart from her theater job, she is also pursuing been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a basis for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. She also set the record for the most awards won by a single actor. McDonald's theater credits also comprise 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, which was the first time she performed in 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) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first appeared on television as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she was an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. In the following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018, as an episode the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She appears as a special appearance for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.