Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the range of her talents and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. She has been a six-time record winner at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She is equally at home in television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. Alongside the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that is a major recording and concert career. She regularly performs at top places. McDonald was raised in a musical family from Fresno in California. She underwent classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she won the first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress an Musical for Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). In the four following years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor 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 prior to the age of thirty. In 2004, she was awarded her fourth Tony for the role she played alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actress in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received the fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she performed in the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated for an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct category of acting, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked 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 Clair de Lune (2019) and Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's debut as a dramatic actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe first 100 years. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, in which she co-starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in the early part of 2006 as well as Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on the pandemic that was co-produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. McDonald has a brief appearance in The Good Wife, a CBS show The Good Wife as a legal actress The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the roles (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald was nominated to win Three Critics Choice Award awards. She guest stars as a guest star in Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.