Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. She has been a six-time record winner from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Due to her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales She has had success in Broadway and in the opera, as well as on television and film. In addition to her theatre work, she has an active career as a musician and recording artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first in the category of lead actress for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor she was also the first actor to be awarded awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the 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) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. Then, in 1999 she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's role in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.