Audra Mc Donald

The range and diversity of Audra's work in her career as an artist is unmatched. Audra has received the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. Audra McDonald, winner of six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. Blessed with a luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent to tell the truth, she is as much at home on Broadway and on the opera stage as in her role in television and film. As well as the stage roles, McDonald has built a career that is a major recording and concert career. She frequently performs in world-class venues. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. Her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of the Featured Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years, she received two more Tony Awards as a featured actor 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 30. In 2004 she was nominated for her fourth Tony Award. She was in the role of A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony as well as her first win in the Leading Actress category was won for her performance as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In the year she received her sixth Tony Award in 2014 her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill was Broadway's most decorated show. In 2017 she was the first to make her West End London West End debut, and was nominated to receive the Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most wins in a competitive category by an actor, she also became the first to receive awards in all four categories of acting. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald was first seen on TV as a drama actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. After starring with Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald was been a regular character on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald received her debut Emmy for her performance in her role in the HBO remake of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on the screen, this time with Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., with Josh Brolin. McDonald became a character on the WB series The Bedford Diaries in early 2006. The following season, she was a recurring character on NBC's TV show Kidnapped. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's movie in the series Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. In 2021, she appeared with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen in The Good Wife, a CBS legal drama The Good Wife as U.S. attorneys Liz Lawrence and Liz Reddick from 2009 until 2018. She reprised her roles (now known as Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight in the role of a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald received nominations for Three Critics Choice Award awards. The actress is currently a guest on Julian Fellowes' historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.