Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. Record-breaking six times winner of the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards in addition to an Emmy Award she received in 2015 from Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Her career has been successful in concert and recording performing regularly in several of the most famous places around the world. McDonald is a native of California, born in Fresno California to a music family, began the classical vocal training she received at New York's Juilliard School. When she graduated, she won the first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. In 2004, she took home her fourth Tony starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and in 2012 she received the fifth time and first time for the category of leading actress in the role of her lead for her role in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history by becoming the Tony Awards most decorated performer in six awards in the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role that also served as the basis for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of London's West End. Along with setting the record as the most awards in a competition category for an actor, she was also the first person ever to receive awards in each of the four types of acting. McDonald was also seen in The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004) and 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 also made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut on Twelfth Nacht (2009). The Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters First 100 Years that initially introduced McDonald to the television audience as a dramatic actor. In 1999, she co-starred with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. Also, she had regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald received her debut Emmy for her part on her role in the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit written by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003 she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald joined the WB's The Bedford Diaries. The following year, she became an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald got the 4th Emmy award for her part in HBO's film special of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill in 2016. She starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS Legal action thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018, she recast her role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a series regular. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. The actress is a featured guest for the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.