Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award in 2015 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts, America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from President Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano and an incomparable gift to tell the truth, she is as much as at ease on Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her role in television and film. Her career has been successful in concert and recording, appearing regularly at some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she received the debut Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years, she took home two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. It was an amazing total of three Tony Awards by the time she reached the age of thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012 she was awarded five Tony Awards and was the first award in the leading actress category for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won six awards for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominated debut performance on the London's West End. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald beat the record in the amount of awards an actor has been awarded. Her other credits for theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe First 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. Following her first Emmy award for her performance on the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit, produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 on the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's film called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular in the series. The performance earned her three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.