Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in her range and the versatility of her talent as an actor and singer. Audra McDonald, who won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was selected as one the Time 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 excellence in the field. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and a talent to tell the truth in a dramatic way the roles she plays on Broadway or at the opera are as comfortable with roles in film and TV. Apart from her theater performance, she enjoys an active career as a recording and concert artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. Born into a musical family McDonald spent her childhood within Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education at New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a show for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Through the time following She was honored with two more Tony Awards as a featured actress as a lead actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), resulting in an overall total of three Tony Awards at the age of just 30. She won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress for her title role performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated actress, she was able to set Broadway history when she was awarded the sixth Tony Award acting in Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This character also gave the stage for Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records for the amount of honors an actor has earned, she was the first actor to take home all four categories. Her other credits for theater include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor came with the winner of the Peabody Award on the CBS show Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. In the following years, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and then in 2000 she had a recurring role on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her part of her role in the HBO versions of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television, but this time she was in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. She joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had the role of a regular on NBC's drama series Kidnapped. McDonald earned her fourth Emmy award for her role in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed comedy co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She guest stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.