Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out as a truly unique artist due to the range and variety of her talents as an actor and singer. In 2015, she won a record breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award. Her work was selected by Time magazine among the 100 influential individuals, and also received with the National Medal of Arts - the most prestigious honor that is given in America in recognition of artistic excellence by the president Barack Obama. A dazzling soprano, and an unrivalled talent for telling dramatic truths the actress is just as at ease in Broadway as well as on the on stage as she is in film and TV performances. In addition to her work in the theatre, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist regularly appearing at the world's foremost venues. Born into a musical family McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training in New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she took home the first Tony Award for Best Performance of a Featured Actress the Musical Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Through the next four-year period the actress was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998) that gave her a total of 3 Tony Awards at the age just 30. In 2004, she was nominated for a fourth Tony Award. Her role was that of A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her five-year-old daughter received her first Tony for her performance in the category of Lead Actress. she portrayed the lead role of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer with her sixth award in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that was also used as the platform for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in the London's West End. Additionally, she set the record for highest competitive wins by an actor she was also the first to win honors in the four categories of acting. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked the release of her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut film, Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the public via television as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: A look at the Delany Sisters first 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and others in the acclaimed ABC/Disney remake of Annie during 1999 she was been a regular character on the network's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. After receiving their first Emmy nomination for her role in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to television networks in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and with Josh Brolin. Then, in the beginning of 2006, she joined the crew of The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the following season, she played been a frequent guest on the NBC popular television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy Award for her appearance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. She was a part of Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed comedy co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. In 2009, she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald played her character Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for the role. The actor is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.

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