Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is unique in the breadth of her talent and her versatility in her roles as a performer and singer. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking six 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 honor in America for excellence in art - from President Barack Obama. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and her unrivaled ability to tell dramatic stories her success has been evident in Broadway and at the opera as well as for television and film. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was born into a musical family in Fresno, CA. She was a classical singer who received training from the Juilliard School of New York. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the four following years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor for her performances as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at 3 before the age of thirty. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony for the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. In 2012, while she was a lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received her fifth Tony and won the first award in the leading actor category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to create Broadway history when she was awarded her sixth Tony Award for the role of Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Aside from setting a record in which she won the most awards for acting, she became the first person to win all four acting categories. McDonald is also featured in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) as well as 110 In the Shade (2007 Twelfth night (2009) and the musical Shuffle Along Shuffle Along: the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth night (2009). McDonald first made her television debut as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the Disney/ABC television version of Annie. In 2000, she appeared as a regular role in NBC's well-known program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was written by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television began in 2003 as she appeared alongside Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. In 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year she was an actor in NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode series about a epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal comedy The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald took on the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.