Audra Mc Donald

Audra's versatility and breadth as a performer is second to none. Audra has received seven Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award. In 2015, she was awarded record-breaking seven Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards and Emmy Awards. She was also named in Time magazine among the 100 most influential individuals and given with the National Medal of Arts - the top prize given in America for excellence in art by the president Barack Obama. She has a home in television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano will make her an ideal performer on the stage. As well as her stage work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at top venues around the globe. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived within Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. After graduating, she received her very first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she received two additional Tony Awards as a featured actor as a featured actress in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total number of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she was nominated to win her 4th Tony Award for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun together with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her 5th Tony and first in the Leading Actress category was awarded to her for her portrayal as the title character in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her 6th Tony award in 2014 Billie Holiday's portrayal of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's highest-rated show. In 2017, she performed in her West End London West End debut, and was nominated for the Olivier Award. Not only did she set records for the highest number of awards in a competition area by an actor she was also the first person ever to be awarded in the four acting categories. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions, including The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it is her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sisters The First 100 Years which first introduced McDonald viewers to her talents as a dramatic actor. Her next role was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's first Emmy was for the HBO movie adaptation of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. Produced by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. She starred in Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. She joined the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she was in a role that was recurring on NBC's Television show Kidnapped. In 2016, McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy award for her appearance as a character in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. The Bite is a drama featuring six episodes that are based on an epidemic, produced through Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. The show featured her with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald portrayed U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In 2018 McDonald took on the role of Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She was awarded three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.