Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is second to none. Audra has been awarded six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. In 2015, she won an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and received the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious prize for artistic achievement in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth She is equally as at ease on Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys an impressive career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received training from The Juilliard School of New York. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of an Actress in a musical called Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his Musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's the same role she played in her 2017 West End London debut for which she was considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald also set a record for the amount of awards an actor has received. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first made her television debut as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. She is also a character on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.