Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both actor and singer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was named one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people and received the National Medal of Arts--America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth, she is as much at home on Broadway and on the opera on stage as she is in TV and film roles. She is a renowned performer performing and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family of musicians. In the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles on the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) making the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and her first nomination in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to make Broadway history when she was awarded the sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to making history with the most competitive wins by an actor she was also the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. The credits for McDonald's theatre work includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was 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 co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. Then, in 2000, she was a regular role in NBC's well-known show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. Following the first Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared alongside Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence who she was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. The role was reprised in 2018as the season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical comedy The Gilded Age.

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