Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and actor. She was the recipient of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in the Time Magazine's list of 100 influential people in 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling her voice is at home on Broadway and the opera stage as in her TV and film roles. In addition to her work in the theater she also enjoys a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed music and concert performer. McDonald was born in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she received her 4th Tony for her role in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought her fifth Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has won. The credits she has in the theater are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is The Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny on the Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald was first seen on television with the award-winning Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. Her next role was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. The following year, she received her debut Emmy award for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned on television network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. She became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she starred as an recurring role on the NBC Television show Kidnapped. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. In 2021, she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The actress first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her character (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ receiving 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.