Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her artistry as both actor and singer. She was the recipient of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people and was given an award called the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award in America for artistic achievement by President Barack Obama. She's equally comfortable in television, film and Broadway. The luminous tone of her voice makes her a natural on the stage. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in a musical family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal instruction from The Juilliard School of New York. She won her first Tony Award in 1994 for the Best Performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and his show Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first for the category of Leading Actress was won for her performance as the titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to create Broadway history when she received her sixth Tony Award for portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with making history with the most performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first to win awards in all four acting categories. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) Twelfth (2009), the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first appeared on television as a dramatic actor on The Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she had a recurring role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination in 1999 for her work as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned on the network's air in 2003 for the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. McDonald became a character on The Bedford Diaries on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early the year 2006. In the following season, she played a recurring character on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her role in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. 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. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first played in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in the year 2009. She reprised this role in 2018, as Season regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. For her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominees. The actress is a featured character for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.