Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, who won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of 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 for excellence in this area. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales She has had success on Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. In addition to her theatre work, she has been a busy singer and a concert artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She was a classical singer who received training at the Juilliard School of New York. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's productions Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time in the leading actress category for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. She created Broadway historical records in 2014 when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that also helped launch her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first to win honors in all four acting categories. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this 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 Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) 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. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen began in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first played in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is currently an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic comedy The Gilded Age.