Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in her breadth of talent and versatility as a singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's top 100 influential people and received the National Medal of Arts, America's most prestigious award for excellence in the field--from the president Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles in Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy like those on film as well as on TV. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first award in the category of lead actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the stage for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on the London's West End. As well as recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first to win awards in all four acting categories. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald made her television debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.