Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. She has been a six-time record recipient of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the world. McDonald was brought up in Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. When she graduated, she won her 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 productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first award in the leading actress category for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. As the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made 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 program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had a recurring character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress returned to network TV in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB show The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she appeared in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018, as an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress is a featured guest in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.