Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and versatility as an actor and singer. The winner of an incredible six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was named to the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. She also received President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. A soprano with unmatched beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth the roles she plays in Broadway or in the opera stage are just as easy as the roles in movies and TV. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, CA. She received classical vocal training from The Juilliard School of New York. One year after graduation McDonald was awarded an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. The actress won his 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 Tonys and her first award in the leading actress category for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014, the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut, and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Along with making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first person to receive honors for all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that was the first to introduce McDonald to the television audience for her performance as a dramatic actor. Her next role was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. After receiving the first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald got a 4th Emmy award for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's legal thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special character for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.