Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald also broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. Her credits in the theatre 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 as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress returned to network TV in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald got a fourth Emmy nomination for her part in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.