Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald stands out in the breadth of her talent and versatility as an actor and singer. Her record-breaking success includes seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in the field--from the President Barack Obama. She has a home in television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. As well as her stage work, she is also a prominent performer as a concert and recording performer who regularly appears at most prestigious venues in the world. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing in the Juilliard School, New York. She won her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by a Featured actress in a musical called Carousel, at Lincoln Center Theater. Over the next four years, she also was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. These were in recognition of her Broadway productions of Terrence McGally's play Master Class and Ragtime. She was awarded his fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as the following year in. In 2012, she took home five Tonys, and the first award in the category of leading actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. The sixth Tony Award in 2014, the role of Billie Holiday of the role Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's most decorated production. In 2017, she made the West End London West End debut, and was also nominated to receive the Olivier Award. In addition to setting a record in the competition in which she won the most awards for acting, she became the first person to win all four acting categories. McDonald was also seen on 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 was the first to make her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut with Twelfth Nacht (2009). McDonald's first role as a dramatic television actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit and she appeared with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald, who received the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, returned to the network in 2003 to star in the drama on politics Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Then, in the year 2006, she joined WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald was nominated for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite was a six episode drama about pandemics produced in collaboration with Spectrum Originals in collaboration with CBS Studios. The actress first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in 2009 on CBS's medical drama The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald reprised the role (now named Liz Reddick) as a season-long regular on The Good Fight on Paramount+ with 3 Critics Choice Award nominations for her performance. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.