Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out in terms of the range and range of her skills as a songwriter and performer. Record-breaking six times winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. Because of her beautiful tone, and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories She has had success in Broadway and in the opera and on television and film. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received training from The Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony, and also her first award in the Leading actress category. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. The role she played as 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, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to setting the record as the most wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she became the first to receive awards in the four acting categories. Her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, 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 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. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television was in 2003, when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.