Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unrivaled by her variety and breadth as a singer, and performer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as An Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Times magazine's top 100 influential people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from the President Barack Obama. She is blessed with a beautiful soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner the actress is just as at ease on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film or television roles. Apart from her theater performances, she also has worked as a recording and concert artist. She has a regular performance schedule in the finest venues of the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in California, Fresno. She received classical vocal training at The Juilliard School of New York. The first time she won a Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Through the course of four years she won two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance during performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) creating an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards, and she was the first time in the category of lead actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the title role. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance in Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance in the London's West End. The actress also broke the record for the most awards won by an actor. McDonald's theater credits also include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation that debuted in 1921 and all That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to television viewers as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After her role as a co-star with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber along with other stars in the well-received ABC/Disney remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald was the role of a regular in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit starring Emma Thompson, was back on network TV in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film is produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald got a 4th Emmy award in recognition of her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the performance. She also appeared as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age.