Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both an actress and a performer. In 2015, she was awarded an all-time record of seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. The actress was named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor for artistic achievement in America to recognize artistic accomplishment and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth the actress is just as at home in Broadway and the opera stage as in her film and TV performances. As well as her theatrical work, she has worked as a singer and concert performer. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald spent her childhood living in Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education at New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after her Juilliard School, she won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a musical" for Carousel. Through the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998), making three Tony Awards at the age of only 30. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards, and she was the first award in the category of lead actress for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received the sixth Tony 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 nomination 2017 premiere in the London's West End. She also set the record for most award wins by an actor. McDonald's theater credits also are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which initially introduced McDonald to TV viewers in her role as a dramatic performer. She appeared on the show in 1999. appeared alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her performance of The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played the role of a regular on NBC's drama series Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for her fourth Emmy Award for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite is a drama which has six episodes, based on the spread of a disease, and produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald was back in the character (now called Liz Reddick) as a regular in the season premiere of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.