Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest honor for achievement in the arts--from the President Barack Obama. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film and TV. In addition to her work in the theater McDonald has also established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed musician and recording artist. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. In 1994, just a few years following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) giving her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tonys, and the first award in the category of leading actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. She made Broadway history when she became the most famous Tony Award winner. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. The first actor to be awarded in four different acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has received. McDonald has also been featured for other productions in the theatre such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six seasons based around the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.