Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in her breadth of talent and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from the President Barack Obama. A soprano with 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. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the world. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music in the Juilliard School, New York. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. She received her fourth Tony when she starred on stage in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. Along with setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she became the first to receive awards in all four categories of acting. Her theater credits include 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 premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead and McDonald returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around a pandemic, coproduced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.