Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a vocalist, and actor. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of 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 achievements in the field. A luminous soprano and an incomparable gift of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is at home on Broadway as well as on the stage as in her role in television and film. In addition to her work in the theater, McDonald also has an impressive profession as a musician and recording artist. McDonald was raised in a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training from the Juilliard School of New York. A year after graduating she received the very debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she also won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with setting the record for most wins in a competitive area by an actor she also became the first actor to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night 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 first made her television debut as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. And in 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in the year 2016. In 2021, she was a co-star in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in The Good Wife, a CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018, reprised these roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for the three Critics Choice Award awards. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.