Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work as a performer is unmatched. She has won seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. As the winner of an unprecedented 6 Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list for 100 influential people in 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Obama's National Medal of Arts for her achievements. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles on Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies as well as on TV. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan that included musicians. At the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances of The Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally's production Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) which gave her the record-breaking total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. She won the fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as in 2012. In 2012, she won five Tony Awards and was the first award in the category of leading actress for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. When she won the sixth Tony Award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017 she made the West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has won. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 remake by ABC and Disney of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald earned a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The following year, McDonald was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.