Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. In 2015, she won record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified by Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious prize given in America for excellence in art - from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner, she is as much at home on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her role in television and film. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a recording performer who regularly appears at world's foremost venues. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. In 1994, a year following her graduation from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She won her fourth Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony in addition to her first award in the Leading actress category. When she won 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 production. In 2017, she also made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for the Olivier Award. Not only did she set the record for most wins in a competitive category for an actor, she also became the first actor to receive awards in the four acting categories. Other credits in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was a recurring character in the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy came for the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character the actress was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald got a 4th Emmy award for her part in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The following year, McDonald was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is currently a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age.