Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist because of her range and diversity of her talents as a performer and songwriter. Audra McDonald, winner of the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as those in films or on television. In addition to performing on stage, she has built a career that has a substantial concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at world-class venues. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating, she was awarded her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. She made Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Along with making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first person to receive honors in all four acting categories. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she played a regular role in NBC's well-known series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her part on The HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, in the year 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 appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.