Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in her range and the versatility of her talents as a singer and an actor. A record six-time winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as the Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. With a soprano of unmatched elegance and an aptitude to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles in Broadway or in the opera are as comfortable as those in films as well as on TV. Alongside her stage performances, she also has an active career as a singer and a concert artist. She regularly performs in some of the top venues around the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical for Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. In the following four years, acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she earned two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with 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 titular character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received her sixth award for her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. Along with setting the record in which she won the most Tony Awards by acting, she became the first to have won all four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on 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: 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 in Twelfth night (2009). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience for her dramatic performance in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. McDonald was later cast as a co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the critically acclaimed 1999 television adaptation of Annie and, in 2000, was a frequent guest in NBC's smash series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO movie version of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson in the leading role the actress was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award Winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the cast of the WB's The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had an recurring role in NBC's television series Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy Award for her appearance on HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald played U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role was seen on CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. It was her turn to reprise the role in the year 2018, playing season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.