Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a performer and songwriter. She was the recipient of an incredible 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. As a result of her beautiful tone, and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales She has had success on Broadway as well as at the opera and for television and film. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also an impressive career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first time in the leading actress category for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017 she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting the record as the most wins in a competitive area by an actor she also became the first person ever to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. The year 1999 saw her co-starred 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 first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined 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 television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.