Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both actor and singer. She was the recipient of a record-breaking six Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) as well as an Emmy Award, McDonald was listed in the Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year 2015. In addition, she was awarded President Barack Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. Due to her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales, she has found success both on Broadway as well as at the opera, as well as in both film and television. Aside from her theater work she also enjoys a thriving career as an internationally acclaimed musician and recording artist. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor on Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of 30. The year 2004, she won the fourth Tony for her performance in the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was the lead actor for the role of Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history by becoming an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. The first actor to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald broke the record for the number of awards an actor has won. McDonald is also featured on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character in the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to network TV in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and 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 was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's production in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite was a six episodes pandemic-themed drama created by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. Having first appeared in the role of U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.