Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is unmatched. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally at home in Broadway and the opera stage as in her film and television roles. She has a successful career performing and recording and regularly performs at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. The year 2004, she received her fourth Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony, and also her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she became the first to be awarded in each of the four types of acting. Her credits in the theatre are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 to star in the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing Season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She appears as a special appearance for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.