Audra Mc Donald

Her versatility and range as a performer is unparalleled. Audra has been awarded the Tony Awards six times, as well as two Grammy Awards, as well as an Emmy Award. She was the recipient of record-breaking seven Tony Awards two Grammy Awards and the Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among Time magazine's 100 most influential individuals and was awarded the National Medal of Arts--America's highest honor for achievement in the field--from the President Barack Obama. A luminous soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling her voice is as at ease on Broadway and the opera scene as she is in her role in television and film. As well as her stage work, she has a thriving career as a recording and concert artist who performs regularly at world's foremost venues. McDonald, who was born in Fresno California to a music family, completed her classical voice training in New York's Juilliard School. Following her graduation, she was awarded her first Tony Award as Best Performance by a Featured Actor in musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The following four years, she won two additional Tony Awards as a featured actress for her roles in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). Her total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three before age 30. In 2004, she won her 4th Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was the lead actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and also won her first Tony Award in the best actor category. As the Tony Awards' most decorated performer, she was able to set Broadway historical records when she won her sixth Tony Award portraying Billie Holiday as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill. This performance also served as the basis to make the Olivier Award nominee 2017 London West End debut. In addition to recording the record for the highest number of performances that an actor has won in a competition as well as becoming the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories. McDonald also has credits in other theatre productions such as The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV 2004 110 in the Shade (2006) Twelfth Nigh (2009) Twelfth Nigh (2009); it was her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park d but Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sense in 1921 and All That Followed (16) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (192019) and Ohio State Murders (2023) McDonald was first introduced to the television audience as a dramatic actor in Peabody Award winning CBS's Having Our Say the Delany Sisters first 100 years. Then, in 1999 she co-starred with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber on the ABC/Disney television version of Annie. And in 2000, she appeared as an recurring role on the NBC series Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald's first Emmy came for the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the lead the actress was back on network television in 2003. The actress starred on Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in the year 2006. She then had a recurring part on NBC's Kidnapped in the year following. McDonald's performance in the HBO film Lady Day At Emerson Bar and Grill earned her four times an Emmy nomination in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she appeared alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in the film The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. She starred in 2009 as she played U.S. Attorney Liz Lawrence in CBS's legal drama The Good Wife. In the year 2018, McDonald reprised her role as Liz Reddick as a regular in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. She got three Critics Choice Award nods for her performance. She is also a guest for HBO's The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.