Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in film, television as well as Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice will make her an ideal performer on the stage. In addition to her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which includes a significant concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at world-class performances. McDonald 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 her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is identical to the role she performed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first person to receive the award for all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first appeared on television as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The year 1999 saw her 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 debut Emmy came for the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The following year, McDonald appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the role (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is a featured appearance in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.