Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award to recognize achievements in the field. With a stunning soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much comfortable on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in film and television roles. She has a successful career performing and recording, appearing regularly at many of the top performances around the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. Her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony for her role in the musical that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with recording the record for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first person to receive honors across all four categories. McDonald has also appeared in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald first made her television debut as a character actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. After receiving the first Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly pandemic coproduced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018as the Season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. The actress is a featured guest on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.