Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a singer, and actor. She has been a six-time record recipient from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She is equally at home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed musician and recording artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she received 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 for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The actress also broke the record for winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. The credits she has in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night marked McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction of 1921, and All That Followed. Frankie Johnny in the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving the first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her role as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared in the show with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. 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 from 2009 to 2018 reprised the characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win three Critics Choice Award awards. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.