Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the range and variety of her talents as actor and singer. A record six-time recipient of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a home on television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano makes her a natural on the stage. Aside from her theater work, McDonald also has an impressive career as an international musician and recording artist. McDonald was raised at Fresno California by her musical parents. They also studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. A year after graduating she was awarded the debut Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured actress in an Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater (1994). Following four years of performing in Broadway's premieres, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) as well as Ragtime (1998) and Ragtime (1998), she won two additional Tony Awards. In 2004, she was in the running for her fourth Tony Award, starring in A Raisin in the Sun alongside Sean Diddy Combs. And in 2012, her fifth Tony and her first nomination for the category of Leading Actress were won by her role as the main character of The Gershwins Porgy and Bess. In her role as the Tony Awards' most decorated actor, she managed to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award for playing Billie Holiday as Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill. This role also provided the platform to make her Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. Also, she set the record of winning the most Tony Awards by one actor. McDonald's other theater credits are The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) in which she made her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921, and all That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald was first introduced to the TV audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her co-starred alongside Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. She also had a recurring part in NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in the year 2000. McDonald, who was awarded an Emmy Award nomination for 1999, for her role as a character in an HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit directed and starring Emma Thompson, made her return to the network in 2003 with the political drama Mister Sterling. The film was produced by Emmy Award-winning Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries on the WB at the beginning of 2006, and Kidnapped, NBC. McDonald's character in HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar & Grill received her four times an Emmy nomination in the year 2016. The Bite will be a six-episode drama about a pandemic that will be produced with Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. McDonald was U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence, a character she first was seen in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in the year 2018, playing an episode main character Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of her role, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominations. She currently guest-stars in Julian Fellowes's historical drama The Gilded Age on HBO.