Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. A record six-time recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays on Broadway or the opera have the same aplomb like those on film or on television. In addition to her work in the theater, McDonald also has a thriving career as an international recording and concert artist. A musically inclined family, McDonald grew up within Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she was awarded two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age thirty. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first award in the leading actress category for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. She also set the record of having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions such as 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 Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress returned to network TV in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic drama The Gilded Age.