Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from President Barack Obama. Due to her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift to tell dramatic stories, she has found success on Broadway and at the opera, as well as for television and film. As well as her stage work, McDonald has built a career that includes a significant performance and recording career. She frequently performs in top venues. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most popular Tony Award nominee. The role she played in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. First actor given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. Her theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. She appears as a special character on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.