Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as an artist is unparalleled. She has won the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. She has been a six-time record recipient at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth, she is as much at home in Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her TV and film roles. She has a successful career in concert and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. In addition to making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, as well as becoming the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character in the NBC show 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 directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen 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 an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.