Audra Mc Donald

Audra is an artist who stands out with regard to the scope and variety of her talent as a performer and songwriter. Audra McDonald, winner of Six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was listed as one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. She has a voice of unparalleled beauty and a gift to tell the truth in a dramatic way Her roles on Broadway or the opera stage are just as easy as those in films and TV. In addition to her work in the theatre, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist regularly appearing at the top venues around the globe. McDonald is a member of a musically inclined family in Fresno, California. She underwent classical vocal training from her school, the Juilliard School of New York. She was awarded her initial Tony Award in 1994 for the best performance of a Featured actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. In the subsequent four years she was awarded two Tony Awards under the featured actress category. The awards were given for her Broadway performances of Terrence McGally's plays Master Class and Ragtime. The actress won the fourth Tony in 2004, starring alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun as well as at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys and her first in the category of leading actress for her performance on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. In 2014 she made Broadway history, becoming one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer after she received the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal 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. She also set the record of most awards won by a single actor. Other credits in the theater includes The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) that marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation in 1921 as well as All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald's debut as a dramatic television actor was in the Peabody Award-winning CBS show Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' first 100 years. In the following years, she starred alongside Kathy Bates, Victor Garber and other actors in the highly famous Disney/ABC version of Annie in 1999, McDonald appeared as a recurring character on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to network television came in 2003 when she starred with Josh Brolin in Mister Sterling. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. McDonald then appeared as the privilege of playing a regular role in NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald earned a nomination for a Fourth Emmy in the year 2016 for her performance in HBO's production of Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar & Grill. The Bite is a drama with six episodes based on a pandemic, coproduced with Spectrum Originals & CBS Studios. McDonald starred with Taylor Schilling & Steven Pasquale. 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 to 2018 reprised the characters (now called Liz Reddick) in The Good Fight as a Paramount+ season regular. McDonald has been nominated for Three Critics Choice Award awards. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' historic comedy The Gilded Age.