Audra Mc Donald

Audra Mcdonald is a standout in her breadth of talent and versatility as a singer and actor. She has been a six-time record winner of her Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and one Emmy Award she received in the year 2015 by Barack Obama. Because of her stunning soprano's tone and unsurpassed gift of telling dramatic tales her success has been evident on Broadway as well as at the opera and on television and film. Apart from performing in theater she also enjoys established a successful career as an internationally acclaimed recording and concert artist. McDonald was born into a musical family in Fresno, California. She received classical vocal training from The Juilliard School of New York. She won her debut Tony Award in 1994 for the most outstanding performance by an Actress in a musical, Carousel which was staged at Lincoln Center Theater. The following four years she was awarded two more Tony Awards for the category of featured actress. The show she was in Broadway premieres Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime and Terrence McNally's show Master Class in 1996. This was an incredible total of three Tony Awards by the time she turned thirty. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 when she starred 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 award in the category of leading actress for her performance as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the title role. The year 2014 saw her make Broadway history and became one of the Tony Awards most decorated performer when she won the sixth Tony Award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill the role which also served as a stage for her Olivier Award nominated performance in the 2017 season of the London's West End. In addition to setting records for the highest number of wins in a competitive category by an actor, she was also the first actor to win awards for each of the four types of acting. McDonald also has credits for theatre shows such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) The Twelfth Night was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut show, Shuffle Along Or the Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actress by Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters first 100 years. The year 1999 saw her starred along with Kathy Bates in ABC's acclaimed remake of Annie. In addition, she played regularly recurring roles on NBC's Law & Order Special Victims Unit in 2000. McDonald, who earned the Emmy Award nomination back in 1999 for her work on the HBO version of Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit with Emma Thompson, made her return with the company in 2003 with the drama about politics Mister Sterling. The film was written and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. Beginning in 2006, she was part of the cast of the The Bedford Diaries on the WB. The Bedford Diaries and over the next season she had a recurring role on NBC's television series Kidnapped. McDonald got a 4th Emmy nomination in recognition of her performance in HBO's special film of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in the year 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared in a telecast with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic drama co-produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald was first seen as U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in the CBS legal action thriller The Good Wife, in the year 2009. In the year 2018, she returned to that role in The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. She received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. In the present, she is an actor in Julian Fellowes' historical film The Gilded Age.