Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as actor and singer. The winner of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in the Time Magazine's list of 100 people who are influential in 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. With a stunning soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling She is equally comfortable in Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her film and television roles. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. She received her fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has won. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre which include 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 debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald's debut as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was the role of a regular on the NBC television show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.