Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in the range and variety of her work as a vocalist, as well as an actor. Her record-breaking success includes Six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was named as one of the top 100 influential people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's most prestigious award for excellence in this field -- from the President Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and a talent for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film and TV. Alongside her stage performances, she also has an active career as a music producer and concert artist. She regularly performs in the finest venues of the world. McDonald was born into a musically inclined family in California, Fresno. She received classical vocal education at The Juilliard School of New York. A year after her Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a the Musical" for her performance in Carousel. The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. The show she was a part of Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's performance Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of 30. In 2004 she was in the running for a fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five year old daughter took home her first Tony for her performance in the category of Leading Actress. In that performance, she portrayed the lead role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. As the Tony Awards' most decorated actress, she was able to make Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform for Her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting a record in the number of awards an actor has won, she was also the first to win all four categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the film Shuffle Along: Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock of 1921, and All That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first actress to be awarded in each of the four acting categories. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 years that first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents in her role as a dramatic performer. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an recurring role on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her part in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy nomination in her part in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. She was a part of Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed comedy co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009, on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her role (now being dubbed Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ and received 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.