Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, and actor. She was the recipient of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list for 100 most influential people of 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb like those on film and TV. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing many a career in musician and recording artist. She regularly performs at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She underwent classical vocal training at The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she was awarded her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first time in the category of lead actress for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the total number of awards that an actor has won. McDonald's theater credits also includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, 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 and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald to television audiences for her performance as a dramatic actor. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 to star in the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got an 4th Emmy nomination for her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year the year 2016. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the part (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.