Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as actor and singer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of Time magazine's top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from the President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. She has a successful career in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious performances around the world. Born into a musical family McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category, for her roles in The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his musical Ragtime (1998) making an unheard of number of Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she won the fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor she also became the first actor to be awarded awards in all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work on the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The actress joined The Bedford Diaries on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. In the following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. McDonald guest-stars in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.