Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from President Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She has a successful career performing and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top places around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at the New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first time in the leading actress category for her role on stage 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 was as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win honors in all four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. Her next role was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.