Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a songwriter and performer. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth Her roles in Broadway or the opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies or on television. In addition to performing on stage, she has established a successful career which includes a significant performance and recording career. She frequently performs in world-class performances. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony by starring on stage in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. She also set the record for the winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) 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 100 Years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving the first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB TV show, debuted in 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on 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 received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She appears as a special guest in the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.