Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. As the winner of an incredible seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was named to Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies as well as on TV. Her career has been successful in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She received classical vocal instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. She was awarded the fourth Tony for her role in the musical in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. She made Broadway history in 2014 when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the show, which also served to launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. Along with setting the record in the competition to win the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. After that, in 1999, she appeared alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she was a recurring on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. The following year, she received her first Emmy award for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is a featured character in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.