Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. Record-breaking six times winner from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling compelling stories She has had success on Broadway and in the opera and in both film and television. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording, appearing regularly at several of the most famous venues around the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up living in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. She received the fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actress for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. She also set the record for having the most awards received by one actor. McDonald is also featured for other productions in the theatre such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a dramatic actor on her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next appearance was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her role on The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. Then she had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's character in HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald initially played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She's currently appearing as guest on Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.