Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of 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 achievements in this field. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift to tell the truth in a dramatic way, her roles on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as those in films and TV. Her career has been successful performing and recording performing regularly in some of the most prestigious performances around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald grew up in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating, McDonald received an award for the Tony Award Best Performance for a Lead Actress of Musical at Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first award in the category of leading actress due to her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess in the lead role. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to make Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The actress also broke the record for the having the most awards received by a single actor. McDonald also has credits for other productions in the theatre 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 d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) The Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie as well as in 2000, she played a regular role on NBC's hit series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress was back on network television in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. In 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. The Bite was a six episode pandemic themed drama produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018, as an episode regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of her performance, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. Presently, she is appearing as a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which airs on HBO.