Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and versatility as a singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in Time magazine's list of 100 influential people in the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty, and an ability to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles in Broadway as well as in opera have the same aplomb like those on film and TV. She has a successful career performing and recording performing regularly in several of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training at her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. She was awarded her 4th Tony for her role in the musical she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, 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. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It is exactly the role she portrayed during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category for an actor, she was also the first to be awarded in each of the four types of acting. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald made her television debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded the first Emmy for her performance as a character in the HBO adaptation 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. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.