Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a singular artist in terms of the diversity and scope of her talent as a singer and actor. Her 2015 season saw her win record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was selected as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art as awarded by the president Barack Obama. She is blessed with a beautiful soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner the actress is just as comfortable on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in film or television roles. Apart from her theatre work, she has a thriving career as a recording artist, regularly performing at top venues around the globe. McDonald was born to a family with a strong musical background in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training at the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she received her debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of the featured actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing number of Tony Awards by the time she turned 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress for her role as the title on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award-winning performer. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. In addition to setting the record for the most competitive wins by an actor she was also the first person to receive honors in every category of acting. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was her first show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was with the award-winning Peabody Award CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. She appeared on the show in 1999. co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald won her first Emmy for her part in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she re-appeared on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an occasional actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021, she starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's drama, a legal-themed drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she played the same role again in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.