Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and performer. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for achievements in this field. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth her voice is at home in Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her film and television roles. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys established a successful career as an international recording and concert artist. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating McDonald won an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead for her performance in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) giving her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She won her fourth Tony by starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony in addition to her first in the leading actress category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award. As well as recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, as well as becoming the first person to receive the award in all four acting categories. Her theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded the fourth Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. In 2021, she starred in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the role (now called Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which premieres on HBO.