Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is unparalleled. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway as well as in opera stage are just as easy like those on film or on television. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys and her first in the category of lead actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Also, she set the record for most awards won by a single actor. McDonald's credits in theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked 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. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy nomination for her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she played in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in the year 2018, playing an episode the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.