Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as an artist is unparalleled. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Record-breaking six times recipient from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies and TV. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. Born into a musical family McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. 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. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned five Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway performance. In 2017, she also was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for the having the most awards received by one actor. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic TV actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following the first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a 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 six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.