Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's most prestigious award for excellence in the arts--from President Barack Obama. Due to her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability to tell dramatic stories, she has found success on Broadway as well as at the opera and in both film and television. In addition to her work in the theater, McDonald also has a thriving career as an international music and concert performer. McDonald was brought up at Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, McDonald received her Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to set Broadway history when she was awarded the sixth Tony Award the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting a record in the contest for winning the most Tony Awards by acting, she became the first woman to be awarded all four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald received her first Emmy for her part as a character in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald got the 4th Emmy award for her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald was first seen in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018, reprised these role (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. She is also a appearance in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.