Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist because of her range and range of her skills as a performer and song writer. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded the National Medal of Arts - the top honor in America in recognition of artistic excellence by President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable on television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She has a successful career performing and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top performances around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. She won 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 was awarded five Tonys, and the first in the leading actress category for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she became the first person ever to receive awards in all four categories of acting. 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 the musical Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in 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. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, had a recurring role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received the first Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018 reprised the role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She appears as a special appearance for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.