Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in the range and variety of her work in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. Record-breaking six times recipient from her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent of telling the truth in a dramatic manner She is equally as at ease in Broadway and on the opera stage as in her role in television and film. Alongside her stage work, she has been a busy recording and concert artist. She performs regularly in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating she was awarded the debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The next four years she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances on the Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She received her fourth Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a leading actress on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she won five Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she played in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed in her 2017 West End London debut for which she was named for the Olivier Award. Aside from setting a record in the competition in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting performance, she also became the first person to win all four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald first appeared on television as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. In 2000, she was an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald was nominated for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The following year, McDonald appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. The role was reprised in the year 2018, playing season main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.