Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range in her career as an artist is unparalleled. She has won the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Times magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the nation's most prestigious award for excellence in this area. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth, she is as much as at ease on Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in film and television roles. She has a successful career in concert and recording performing regularly in many of the top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. The year 2004, she took home her 4th Tony by starring in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony as well as her first in the leading actress category. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in an award-giving category for an actor, she also became the first person ever to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald had an recurring role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who was awarded the Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her performance in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return on the network's air in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She was a part of The Bedford Diaries of the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she played an recurring role on the NBC TV show Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. McDonald starred along with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She received three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She guest stars on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.