Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. In 2015, she was awarded a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. Her name was also cited in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given with the National Medal of Arts - the top honor given in America for excellence in art - from President Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as those in films as well as on TV. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer performing regularly in many of the top places around the world. McDonald is a member of a musical family in Fresno, CA. She received classical vocal instruction from the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's play Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was 30. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first award in the category of leading actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated performance. In 2017, she also was the first to make the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for an Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record for the winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. Other credits in the theater include 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 TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. After that, in 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She is currently appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.