Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her artistry as both an actor and singer. Her record-breaking success includes Six Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and an Emmy Award in 2015 she was named among the top 100 influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in this field -- from President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable on screen, in television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist, regularly performing at world's foremost venues. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived at Fresno California and received her classical training at the New York's Juilliard School. The following year, after graduation, she received the first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the following four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of prominent actress. She was in Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. That was a staggering amount of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony for her role as Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and In 2012, she was awarded the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to establish Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to perform for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records for the highest number of awards won by actors in competition, as well as becoming the first person to receive honors in each of the four acting categories. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: Shuffle Along: Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She was the very first actress to be awarded in the four categories of acting. McDonald's initial appearance as a acting on television was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. The actress then starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the well-received 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she appeared in a variety of roles on the NBC's cult series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit starring Emma Thompson, was seen again on TV networks in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling. The film is directed by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a fourth Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed comedy co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald began her role as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.