Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as a singer and an actor. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize excellence in the field. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling She is equally at home on Broadway and on the opera scene as she is in her film or television characters. As well as her theatrical job, she is also pursuing many facets of her career, including musician and recording artist. She is regularly performing in some of the top venues around the world. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her traditional vocal education in New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald was awarded the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Lead Actress in Musical" for Carousel. Over the next four years, she won two more Tony Awards for the category of principal actress. She performed in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she was 30. In 2004 she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. Her role was that of 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 Lead Actress. she portrayed the lead role of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award playing 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. Also, she broke the record for most prizes won by an actor. Some of her theater credits comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2005) 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nacht (2009) the latter of which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation from 1921 & Everything That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the television audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say The Delany Sisters first 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her part of the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she returned to television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. Beginning in 2006 she was part of the cast of the series on TV by WB, The Bedford Diaries and over her next season, she appeared in the role of a regular on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald was awarded a fourth Emmy nomination in her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on the pandemic that was co-produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's drama, a legal-themed thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance was recognized with three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress also appears in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age.