Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability of dramatizing the truth Her roles in Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as those in films and TV. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at top venues. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for Carousel. In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her title role performance for her role 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. It's identical to the role she performed in her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for the most awards won by one actor. Her theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks began in 2003 in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018, reprised these characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in three Critics Choice Award awards. In the present, she is guest on Julian Fellowes' historic comedy The Gilded Age.