Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was received with the National Medal of Arts - the highest award in America for excellence in art and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. Due to her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident on Broadway and in the opera, as well as in both film and television. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing many a career in singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she was awarded the very first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first in the leading actress category due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. When she won the 6th Tony award in 2014, her performance in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she was the first to make the West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record of winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her part as a character in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. 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. She reprised her roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations in the three Critics Choice Award awards. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.