Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talents as actor and singer. She has been a six-time record winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth, she is as much comfortable in Broadway and on the opera stage as in her TV and film roles. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training at New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the subsequent four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress for her title role performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014, she created Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards in the role of 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 London's West End. As well as making history with the most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first actor to be awarded awards across all four categories. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows, including 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 d but 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's first appearance as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe Early 100 Years. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role in the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 for the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced by Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 to 2018. She reprised her roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of the Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is a featured guest on HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.