Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as an artist is unmatched. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. In 2015, she won a record breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was received an award called the National Medal of Arts - the highest prize in America in recognition of artistic excellence and achievement - by the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much comfortable in Broadway as well as on the scene as she is in her film and television roles. Alongside performing on stage, she has established a successful career which is a major concert and record-making career. She performs regularly at top places. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received her training in classical singing in New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). After four more years of being in the Broadway premieres of Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) and Ragtime (1998) in 1998, she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she has been named for the Olivier Award. As well as making history with the most competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first to win awards for all four categories of acting. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance of Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen came in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. Then she had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald got a fourth Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to her part (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.