Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the range and variety of her talent as actor and singer. She was the recipient of record-breaking six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award for artistic achievement in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. She has a home in television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. She has a successful career as a recording artist and concert performer and regularly performs at several of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald was raised within Fresno California by her musical parents. She studied classical music in the Juilliard School, New York. After graduating McDonald was awarded an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for the Lead Actress of a Musical for her performance in Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony when she starred as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she brought home her 5th Tony in addition to her first in the leading actress category. In 2014, she created Broadway history and became an official Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. In addition to setting the record as the most awards in a competition category for an actor, she became the first person ever to win awards for the four acting categories. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked Twelfth Night (2009), which was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show 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) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald first made her television debut as a dramatic actor on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Her next appearance was that of a regular actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. Following the season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for an additional Emmy Awards for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald has a brief appearance in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the role (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently acting as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.