Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched with the variety and breadth of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. In 2015, she was awarded an all-time record of Six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. In addition, she was acknowledged in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded her the National Medal of Arts - the top award that is given in America for artistic achievement and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. Her talents are equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her beautiful soprano makes her a natural on the stage. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the major venues across the globe. Born into a musical family McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education at New York's Juilliard School. A year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of prominent actress. She performed in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony in the role of Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home five awards, including her first-ever in the lead actress category for her role as the title for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth nomination for her performance in Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 premiere in the London's West End. Along with setting records in terms of the number of awards an actor earned, she was the first person ever to win each of the four categories. McDonald's theater credits also are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) Twelfth Nacht (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, 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 first appearance as a dramatic acting on television was in the winner of the Peabody Award on the CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she appeared in a variety of roles in NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work for the HBO adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit featuring Emma Thompson was seen again on TV networks in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film is produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. In the year 2016 McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. She was a part of Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which can be seen on HBO.