Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as an artist is second to none. She has won the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth, her roles on Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as the roles in movies and TV. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has established a successful career which is a major performance and recording career. She regularly performs at top venues. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, received her training in classical singing at the New York's Juilliard School. 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 a the Musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting a record in the contest in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting, she became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. After receiving her debut Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role was seen in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in the year 2018, playing an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic film The Gilded Age.