Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. As the winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as those in films and TV. Alongside her stage performances, she also has been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing at the most prestigious venues in the world. Born into a musical family McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and was awarded the first Tony Award in the best actor category. One of 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 is identical to the role she performed for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been named for the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald set a record for the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald has also appeared on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald was introduced to the TV audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She appears as a special character in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.