Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, and actor. A record six-time recipient at the Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards as well as one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. She has a voice of unparalleled elegance and an aptitude for dramatizing truth, her roles in Broadway or in the opera have the same aplomb as the roles in movies and TV. Alongside her theatrical work she is also a prominent performer as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at top venues around the globe. A musically inclined family, McDonald lived living in Fresno California and received her classical training in the New York's Juilliard School. A year after graduating, McDonald received the Tony Award Best Performance for an Actress in Musical Lead in Carousel in the Lincoln Center Theater. After four more years of acting in Broadway's most acclaimed productions, Master Class by Terrence M. McNally (1996) in addition to Ragtime (1998), she was awarded two more Tony Awards. The year 2004, she won her fourth Tony for her role on stage in A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took her fifth Tony in addition to her 1st in the Leading actress category. In 2014, the Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she was as the title character in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is the same role she played during her performance in 2017's West End London debut for in which she's been considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. As the first actress to be given awards in four distinct acting categories, McDonald set a record for the number of awards an actor has been awarded. McDonald's other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999) Henry IV (2004) 110 in the Shade (2007) Twelfth Night (2009) which marked her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, the show Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019) as well as Ohio State Murders (2023). McDonald made her TV debut in the Peabody Award-winning CBS drama Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters's First Hundred Years. Her next appearance was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she starred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy nominated performance as Emma Thompson on Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was directed by Mike Nichols. McDonald's return to the network TV screen was in 2003, as she appeared alongside 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 within the next year. In the year 2016, McDonald was nominated for the fourth Emmy award for her performance in HBO's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar Restaurant & Grill, a movie-special. In 2021, she was a co-star alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama that was co-produced between Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. The year 2009 saw her debut, McDonald played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular on Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for this performance. In the present, she is guest on Julian Fellowes' period film The Gilded Age.