Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in the range of her talents and versatility as a singer and actor. The winner of a record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. Because of her beautiful tone, and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident both on Broadway and in the opera as well as for television and film. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald lived in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she won two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. She was awarded the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first time in the category of lead actress for her performance in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. She created Broadway history when she became the world's most decorated Tony Award performer. The role she played as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role which was also the catalyst for the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. First actor recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has won. Her theater credits include 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 & All That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald made her television debut in the award-winning Peabody Award winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. 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 network television began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Award for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a pandemic that will be produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's drama about lawyers The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actress is a featured guest on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.