Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talent is unparalleled in her range of talents and variety as a vocalist, and actor. Audra McDonald who has won the prestigious six Tony Awards in a row and two Grammy Awards in 2015 was named as one of Times magazine's 100 most influential people. President Barack Obama also awarded her the National Medal of Arts -the highest honor in America to recognize achievements in the field. She's equally comfortable in television, film and Broadway. Her stunning soprano is a perfect fit for the stage. Alongside her stage job, she is also pursuing many a career in recording and concert artist. She performs regularly in the best venues of the world. McDonald is from Fresno California, where she was raised by a family full of musicians. While at the Juilliard School in New York City, McDonald received training as the classical singer. After graduating, she received her first Tony Award as Best Performance by an Featured Artist in a Musical at the Lincoln Center Theater for Carousel (1994). The next four years she received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category for her performance of The Broadway premier of Terrence McNally's show Master Class (1996) and the show Ragtime (1998) which gave her an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. The actress won her fourth Tony in 2004 starring with Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun and at the end of 2012. In 2012, she won five Tonys, and the first in the leading actress category for her role as Porgy and Bess in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess as the main character. When she won the Sixth Tony in the year 2014, her performance as Lady Day in Lady Day in Emerson's Bar & Grill has become Broadway's highest-rated production. In 2017, she also made her West End London West End debut and was nominated for the Olivier Award. She also set the record of winning the most Tony Awards by a single actor. The credits for McDonald's theatre work include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009) The Twelfth, the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in 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 actor on television was with the Peabody Award-winning CBS series Having Our Say The Delany Sisters' Early 100 Years. Then, in 1999 she costarred alongside Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the television adaptation of Disney/ABC of Annie. Then, in 2000, she appeared as a recurring on NBC's popular program Law & Order Special Victims Unit. McDonald won her first Emmy for her role as a character in The HBO version of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. In 2003, she was back on television but this time on Mister Sterling produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr., which starred Josh Brolin. Then, in the year 2006, McDonald appeared on WB's The Bedford Diaries. The next year, she appeared as an actor who appeared on NBC's Kidnapped. McDonald won a 4th Emmy for her performance as Lady Day in Emerson's Bar and Grill on HBO in 2016. She also appeared in 2021 when she starred alongside Taylor Schilling and Steven Pasquale as part of The Bite, a pandemic film produced by Spectrum Originals and CBS Studios. McDonald first played U.S. lawyer Liz Lawrence (now Liz Reddick), in CBS's law-and-order thriller The Good Wife, in 2009. In 2018 she reprised the role on The Good Fight for Paramount+ as a regular on the series. Her performance received three Critics Choice Award Nominations. She is also a appearance on the HBO series The Gilded Age by Julian Fellowes.