Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unrivaled in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and actor. Her record-breaking success includes 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals. She was also awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from President Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera stage are just as comfortable like those on film as well as on TV. Her professional career is a success performing and recording performing regularly in some of the most famous performances around the globe. McDonald was born to a family with a strong musical background in Fresno, CA. Her classical singing training at The Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, a year following her graduation from the Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in Musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her work in the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's Play Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) making an incredible total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in 2004 with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she received five Tonys, her first time in the category of leading actress for her performance of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards for her performance in Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that was also used as the basis for her Olivier Award nomination 2017 premiere in the London's West End. In addition, she set the record for the most award wins by an actor. Some of her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) Twelfth Nacht (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was her first show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation that debuted in 1921 and all That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically acclaimed Disney/ABC version of Annie during 1999 she was a recurring character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. In the wake of receiving their first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 for the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over her next season, she appeared in an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald earned a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021, she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's civil show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ and received the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.