Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. She has been a six-time record recipient from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift of dramatizing the truth the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb like those on film or on television. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing an active career as a recording and concert artist. She regularly performs in the best venues of the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she was awarded the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress 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 30. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first award in the category of leading actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. As well as recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor she was also the first actor to be awarded honors in all four acting categories. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents for her performance as a dramatic actor. Her next role was as a recurring actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. Following the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit written 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 starring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the characters (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.