Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer and performer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America for excellence in this area. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies and TV. Apart from her theater work, she has been a busy singer and a concert artist. She is regularly performing in the best venues of the world. Born into a musical family McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating McDonald was awarded her Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead at Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. In the four following years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). The total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she won her fifth--and her first in the leading actress category for her performance as the title character as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014, Billie Holiday's portrayal of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she performed in the West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. In addition to setting a record in the contest for winning the most awards by an actor, she was the first woman to be awarded each of the four categories for acting. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921, and all That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as been a regular character in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy nomination 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 television networks in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was a recurring actor on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald's performance in the HBO movie Lady Day At Emerson Bar Restaurant earned her a four-time Emmy nomination in 2016. The following year, McDonald was a co-star with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her role (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations to win the three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historic comedy The Gilded Age.