Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. A record six-time recipient from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. A luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is as at ease on Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her film and television roles. Alongside her stage performances, she also has many a career in musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. 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 the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition category for an actor, she became the first to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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 First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. The year 1999 saw her co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. The following year, she received her first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.