Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and actor. The winner of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in the year 2015. The president also awarded her Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as those in films and TV. Alongside her stage work, McDonald has built a career that is a major recording and concert career. She regularly performs at the most prestigious performances. McDonald was born into a musical family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received training from The Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win for the category of leading actress for her title role performance for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record in the contest in which she won the most awards for acting performance, she also became the first person to win the four categories of acting. Her theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. The actress then starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 to star in the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018, she recast that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.