Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist in terms of the range and variety of her talent as a performer and song writer. The winner of an unprecedented six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth, her roles in Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy like those on film as well as on TV. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She regularly performs at top places. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) giving her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. The actress won his 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 won five Tonys, and the first award in the leading actress category for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest in which she won the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first person to win the four categories of acting. The credits she has in the theater includes 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 of 1921-and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the 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. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen 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 the characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.