Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize for artistic achievement in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays in Broadway or the opera are as comfortable like those on film and TV. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. Born into a musical family McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony as well as her first win for the category of Leading Actress were won by her role as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she also was the first to make her West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Also, she set the record for most awards won by an actor. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her part as a character in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic comedy The Gilded Age.