Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as an artist is second to none. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much as at ease on Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in role in television and film. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed musician and recording artist. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. The year 1994 was the year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. She took home her 4th Tony by starring on stage in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony in addition to her first in the leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has received. 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 marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald joined the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was an recurring role on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She appears as a special character in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.