Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work in her career as an artist is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. A record six-time winner at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth, her roles on Broadway or in the opera stage are just as easy like those on film or on television. In addition to her theatre work, she has been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, just a few years after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. She won the fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a basis for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. Along with setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition category by an actor, she was also the first actor to be awarded in each of the four types 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. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actress. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination in 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.