Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her artistry as both actor and singer. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was received with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious prize given in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much at home on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Following four years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony in addition to her 1st in the Leading actress category. The actress made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, earned her six Tony Awards. Aside from setting a record in the competition to win the most awards by an acting performance, she also became the first woman to be awarded each of the four categories for acting. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her television debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress was a part of the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she was a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.