Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald is unrivaled in the breadth and versatility of her talent as an actress and a performer. Audra McDonald who has won six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was recognized as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. The president Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -- America's highest honour to recognize achievements in the field. She's equally comfortable on television, film as well as Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. She is a renowned performer as a recording artist and concert performer, appearing regularly at several of the most famous venues around the globe. McDonald grew in Fresno California, where she was raised by a clan of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as a classical singer. After graduating, she received the first Tony Award as Best Performance of a Featured Artist an Musical in the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). In the following four years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance in The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the Musical Ragtime (1998) giving her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. She won her 4th Tony for her role as a lead in A Raisin in the Sun along with Sean Diddy Combs. Then in 2013, she took home her 5th Tony in addition to her first in the leading actress category. She made Broadway history when she became the most decorated Tony Award performer. In her role in the role of Billie Holiday at Emerson's Bar & Grill, the role which was also the catalyst for her Olivier Award nominated debut on London's West End in 2017, was the reason she received six awards. The actress also broke the record of winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. McDonald's theater credits also comprise The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut, Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical sensation of 1921 as well as the series That Followed (2017) Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune (2018) and Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald's debut as a dramatic TV actor was on the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say The Delany Sistersthe Early 100 Years. The next time she appeared on television was as a recurring actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit, in which she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's Emmy-nominated performance as Emma Thompson in Mike Nichols' HBO film adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Wit was produced 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 the year 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped within the next year. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her role as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill on HBO in the year 2016. The actress starred with Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale in The Bite a six-episode pandemic-themed drama produced through Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios in 2021. McDonald appeared as U.S. prosecutor Liz Lawrence in the first episode of her role appeared in CBS's The Good Wife legal drama in 2009. She reprised this role in 2018, as season the regular Liz Reddick in Paramount+'s The Good Fight. In recognition of the role she played, McDonald received three Critics Choice Award nominated. She's currently appearing as an actor in Julian Fellowes' period drama The Gilded Age.