Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in her range and the versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. As the winner of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards (two Grammy Awards) and an Emmy Award, McDonald was included in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of 2015. The president also awarded her Obama's National Medal of Arts for her accomplishments. Because of her beautiful tone, and her unrivaled ability of telling dramatic tales, she has found success on Broadway as well as at the opera as well as in both film and television. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Following four years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she received her fourth Tony acting alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012, she took home the fifth time and first time in the lead actress category in the role of her lead as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. One of the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. It's exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for in which she's been nominated for an Olivier Award. In addition to setting a record in the contest for winning the most Tony Awards by acting, she became the first to have won each of the four categories for acting. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in The Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). She made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Night (2009). McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had an occasional role in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald won her debut Emmy for her role in her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. Then she had the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Awards for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, a film-special. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal drama The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She appears as a special appearance in HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.