Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in her breadth of talent and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. The winner of a record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts, America's highest award for accomplishment in the arts--from the president Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television and Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. In addition to her work in the theater, McDonald also has an impressive profession as a recording and concert artist. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical training in New York's Juilliard School. The year 1994 was the year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress the Musical" for Carousel. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She performed in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing amount of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first award in the leading actress category for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in the sixth Tony Award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. Also, she set the record of winning the most Tony Awards by an actor. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it 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 the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. And in 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress was a part of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she starred as a recurring character on NBC's television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO production Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received the actress a fourth Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised her part (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is a featured character for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.