Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is second to none. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She has been a six-time record winner from the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling She is equally comfortable on Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her TV and film roles. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. She was awarded her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance on the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and was awarded the first award in the leading actor category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received 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 2017 debut in the London's West End. Along with setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first to win awards across all four categories. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC remake 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, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's role in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.