Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth in her career as an artist is unparalleled. She has won six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and one Emmy Award. She has been a six-time record winner at her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. As a result of her soprano's luminous tone and unbeatable ability of telling dramatic tales, she has found success on Broadway and in the opera as well as in both film and television. As well as performing on stage, she has built a career that has a substantial performance and recording career. She performs regularly at world-class venues. McDonald was born in Fresno California to a music family, received the classical vocal training she received at the New York's Juilliard School. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she was awarded 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). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of thirty. In 2004, she was awarded her 4th Tony for her performance in the role in which she was a co-star with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. When she was in 2012, she was a leading actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she received five Tony and was awarded the first prize in the lead actor category. She made Broadway history in 2014 as she became the highest decorated Tony Award performer. Her portrayal as Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill as well as the role that also helped launch the career of her Olivier Award nominated debut on the London's West End in 2017, was her six award. Along with setting records for the highest number of awards in a competition category for an actor, she also became the first person ever to receive awards in the four acting categories. McDonald has also been featured in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009); this was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First 100 years. Her next role was that of a character actor in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. After receiving the first Emmy nomination for her performance on the HBO film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit produced by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson McDonald returned to network television in 2003 on the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. and featuring Josh Brolin. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television series that debuted in the year 2006. McDonald then appeared as an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her portrayal of Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill, which aired on HBO in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed show co-produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the character (now known as Liz Reddick) as a season regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress is currently guest on Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.