Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has received six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of an unprecedented seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. The actress was also identified in Time magazine among the 100 most influential people, and she was also given with the National Medal of Arts - the highest honor given in America for excellence in art and achievement - by President Barack Obama. She is equally at home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Alongside her theatrical work she has a thriving career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she received her debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. She won his fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she took home five Tonys and her first in the category of leading actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to set Broadway history when she received the sixth Tony Award playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This part also gave her the opportunity to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. The actress also broke the record for the having the most awards received by an actor. McDonald has also been featured for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night also was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sense of 1921 And All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series 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 Disney/ABC television remake of Annie and in 2000 she played a regular role on the NBC's hit show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy was awarded for her performance in the HBO movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then was back on network television in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Early in 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016, for her role in HBO's movie of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.