Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and diversity of her talents as a performer and song writer. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth She is equally comfortable on Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in role in television and film. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a recording and concert performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she won two additional Tony Awards. She won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first award in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She created Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest popular Tony Award nominee. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which also served to launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first actor to be awarded honors across all four categories. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. The following year, she received the first Emmy award for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's character in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS Legal drama 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 the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for the three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress also appeared as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.