Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a unique artist with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a performer and songwriter. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling She is equally at home on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theater, McDonald also has established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the subsequent four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The actress made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the world's most famous Tony Award winner. 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 London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Also, she set the record for the having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald first appeared on television as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to television networks was in 2003, as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. McDonald joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she was in a role that was recurring on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. 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. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She appears as a special guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.