Audra Mc Donald

Audra is a singular artist in terms of the range and diversity of her talents as a songwriter and performer. Audra McDonald who has won Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour for achievements in this field. She's equally comfortable on television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Her career has been successful as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at several of the most famous performances around the world. McDonald is a member of a musical family from Fresno in California. She received classical vocal training at The Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she won two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performances in the Broadway productions Terrence McNally's play Master Class (1996) and the musical Ragtime (1998) making an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of thirty. In 2004, she was in the running to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first award in the category Leading Actress were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was the most prestigious Broadway performance. In 2017 she performed in her West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. First actor recognized in all four acting categories, McDonald also beat the record in the number of awards an actor has won. McDonald's credits in theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (993) Henry IV (2004) and 110 in the Shade (707). Twelfth, Night was McDonald's Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut. Shuffle Along is the Making of the Musical Seduction in 1921 and the Drama That Followed. Frankie Johnny as Clair de Lune. and Ohio State Murders. McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First Hundred years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as an recurring role on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her first Emmy for her role as a character in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. McDonald became a character on the WB The Bedford Diaries The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. Following the season, she played in a role that was recurring on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. McDonald got the 4th Emmy award for her performance in the HBO film special Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in 2016. In 2021, she starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first played on the CBS drama The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in 2018, as Season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. As a result of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.