Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unmatched in the breadth and versatility of her talents as an actress and a performer. Record-breaking six times winner at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth Her roles in Broadway or in the opera stage are just as easy as those in films as well as on TV. She is a renowned performer in concert and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous places around the world. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised living in Fresno California and received her singing training in the classical style at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years she was awarded two additional Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. She was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime as well as Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible number of Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history, becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which was also the basis for her Olivier Award-nominated debut performance on London's West End. In addition to setting the record for most performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first to win awards across all four categories. Her theater credits 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 premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's first appearance as a dramatic actor on television was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany SistersThe first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the highly acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving the first Emmy award for her role in the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show Wit directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and starring Josh Brolin. Early in 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got the 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in the year 2016. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced by Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. McDonald, who first appeared in the CBS Legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick between 2009 and 2018 reprised the roles (now named Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of an Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for three Critics Choice Award awards. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical thriller The Gilded Age on HBO.