Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and her versatility as a singer and actor. As the winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 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 Her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies or on television. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a recording artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) giving her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category were won by her role as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for the having the most awards received by an actor. McDonald's theater credits also comprise 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, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's debut as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. In 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she was an recurring role on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.