Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the breadth of her talent and versatility as a singer and actor. Her record-breaking success includes six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth her voice is as at ease on Broadway and the opera on stage as she is in role in television and film. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was surrounded by a large family that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as an classical vocalist. After graduating McDonald won the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given in recognition of her Broadway performance in Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first award in the leading actress category for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. Along with making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she was also the first person to receive the award in all four acting categories. Her other credits for theater includes 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 show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. Her next role was that of a character actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The actress was a part of the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she starred as in a role that was recurring on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded the 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.