Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unmatched. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's top 100 influential people. She also received the National Medal of Arts, America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much comfortable in Broadway as well as on the stage as in her role in television and film. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She frequently performs in the most prestigious performances. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She received classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she took home two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and also won her first prize in the lead actor category. In 2014, she created Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on London's West End. Also, she set the record for winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. The credits she has in the theater include 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 in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actress. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received an fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.