Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's artistry is unmatched in its breadth and diversity as a singer, and performer. A record six-time recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a home in film, television as well as Broadway. Her luminous soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Her career has been successful in concert and recording and regularly performs at several of the most famous venues around the globe. She was born into a musical family. McDonald was raised in Fresno California and received her classical vocal training at New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). Over the next four years, she also received two more Tony Awards under the featured actress category. They were awarded for her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The year 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was the lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and won the first prize in the lead actor category. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014 the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated performance. In 2017 she made her West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Along with recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition she also became the first person to receive awards across all four 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: A Story of the Making of the Musical Shock of 1921 and Everything That Followed (2016). McDonald also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald first appeared on television as a character actor in the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 1999, she co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald was awarded her first Emmy for her role as a character in her role in the HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television, this time in Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined The Bedford Diaries' cast on The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the course of the season, she was an recurring role in the NBC television show Kidnapped. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy Awards for her performance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, a special film. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she was the U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018, McDonald returned to her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. She is currently appearing as a guest in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.