Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the range and variety of her talents as a singer and an actor. In 2015, she was awarded an unprecedented seven 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 was awarded the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious award in America for artistic achievement by the president Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano, and an unrivalled talent to tell the truth her voice is comfortable in Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her TV and film roles. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major performance and recording career. She regularly performs at top venues. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family from Fresno in California. She was a classical singer who received training at The Juilliard School of New York. Following her graduation, she was awarded her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. In 2004, she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category 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 became Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017, she also was the first to make her West End London West End debut and was nominated for an Olivier Award. The actress also broke the record of most awards won by a single actor. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and Shuffle Along The Making of the Musical Shock in 1921 as well as Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth night (2009). McDonald's first role as a dramatic TV actor was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. Following her appearance with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber as well as others in the critically popular Disney/ABC remake of Annie in 1999, McDonald had been a regular character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie version of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of show on WB called The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on the television series of NBC, Kidnapped. McDonald received an 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her role in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. She appeared with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. She starred in 2009 as she portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. She's currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes's historical film The Gilded Age.