Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and her versatility as a singer and actor. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking 6 Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified as a result of Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also awarded with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious prize given in America for artistic achievement by the president Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched beauty and a gift to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway as well as in opera are as comfortable like those on film as well as on TV. Alongside her theatrical work she maintains a major career as a recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. McDonald was brought up within Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at Juilliard School, New York. After graduating, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in the Musical Carousel at the Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Over the next four years she won another two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tony Awards and was the first award in the category of leading actress for her role on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The Sixth Tony in the year 2014, her performance of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill became the most prestigious Broadway show. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. As the first actress to be recognized in all four category of acting, McDonald set a record for the total number of awards that an actor has been awarded. McDonald is also featured for theatre shows which include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut 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) McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The next time she appeared on television was that of a regular actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit which was written and performed by Emma Thompson, returned with the company in 2003 with the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was created by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB in early 2006 and Kidnapped, NBC. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced with Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress also appeared on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.