Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. She was the recipient of an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the top honor in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. She has a home in film, television as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice is a perfect fit for the stage. She is a renowned performer performing and recording performing regularly in many of the top places around the world. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004 she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. First actor given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has won. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit with Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald got the 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.