Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unmatched. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded the National Medal of Arts - the highest award given in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. As a result of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident in Broadway and in the opera and in both film and television. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also established a successful profession as a musician and recording artist. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. A year after graduating she received the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in performances in the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first award in the category of lead actress due to her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. She made Broadway history when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. As the first actress to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the number of awards an actor has won. The credits she has in the theater include 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 in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following the first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.