Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. In 2015, she won an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and awarded the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize in America in recognition of artistic excellence - from the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth, she is as much at home on Broadway and on the opera stage as in her film and television roles. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has an impressive profession as a musician and recording artist. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family that included musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. Her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical for Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles 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 thirty. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and also won her first award in the leading actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. She also set the record for having the most awards received by a single actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she had a recurring role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her debut Emmy for her part on The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.