Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unmatched. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. 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. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the president Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth, she is as much as at ease on Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her film and television roles. In addition to her work in the theatre, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. She took home her 4th Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony in addition to her 1st in the Leading actress category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. First actor recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the amount of awards an actor has won. Her other credits for theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. In 2000, she played 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 directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special appearance in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.