Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her talent as actor and singer. Record-breaking six times recipient at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty, and an ability for dramatizing truth the roles she plays on Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as the roles in movies as well as on TV. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that includes a significant performance and recording career. She regularly performs at top places. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. She was awarded her first Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical for Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of a featured actress. The show she was in the Broadway premier productions of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's production of Master Class in 1996. The result was an astonishing total of three Tony Awards by the time she was thirty. She was awarded her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first award in the leading actress category for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she had the chance to set Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Along with recording the record for the highest number of competitive wins by an actor as well as becoming the first actor to be awarded the award for all four categories of acting. McDonald was also seen on The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and All That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first seen on television in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred years. She went on to co-star alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 television adaptation of Annie and in 2000 she was a frequent guest on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald, who received an Emmy Award nomination for 1999 for her performance in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize-winning film Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. 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 and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic coproduced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on her character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently a guest star in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age, which is telecast on HBO.