Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth, she is as much comfortable on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in film and television roles. Aside from her theater work McDonald has also an impressive profession as a recording and concert artist. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. A year after graduating she was awarded the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Along with setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first to win honors across all four categories. Her theater credits includes 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 the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018, reprised these role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated in three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical comedy The Gilded Age.