Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a performer and song writer. She was the recipient of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and one Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 people who are influential in 2015. She also received President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her work. With a stunning soprano, and an unrivalled talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner her voice is at home in Broadway and the opera stage as in her role in television and film. She has a successful career in concert and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous performances around the world. 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. After graduating McDonald won her Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical for her performance in Carousel for Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home her fifth Tony Award, and her first win in the lead actress category for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014, the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she was the first to make her West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record to win the most Tony Awards by actor, she was the first person to win each of the four categories for acting. McDonald's other theater credits includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was introduced to the public via television for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. After that, in 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she played a recurring on NBC's popular series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her debut Emmy for her role in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received an 4th Emmy nomination for her performance in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. She first appeared on the show as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with the three Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic film The Gilded Age.